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aabdelhafeztoday at 10:46 AM7 repliesview on HN

Switched to Wero and haven't looked back.

https://wero-wallet.eu


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sunaookamitoday at 12:32 PM

Wero is not a PayPal alternative. It doesn't even have buyer's protection and every bank must manually implement it which immediately makes it a failure. Some banks also connect it to your phone number so you can't link Wero to two different bank accounts with the same number when you have 2 bank accounts. Very messy.

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unpopularopptoday at 11:20 AM

Unfortunately peasants like us who don't live in the 5 countries where it's available still can't look back

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muvlontoday at 11:45 AM

You need to use your bank's app for Wero, and many EU banks' apps refuse to run on GrapheneOS for the same reasons as PayPal. This is sadly not a clear win for Wero.

therealmarvtoday at 11:39 AM

wait for it... I can see a future were every wallet, payment etc. app will block devices which are on custom ROMs and do not pass strong hardware integrity with blessing from Google.

I've read once that there are paid app testing labs which test if an app has root and custom ROM detection and when they don't have that it's a minus point on the report.

Carbon1603today at 1:00 PM

Sadly, not even close. I would even dare to say that Klarna is closer to what PayPal is, than Wero.

onionytoday at 11:20 AM

The website is pages and pages of blankness for me on Firefox mobile.

savwolftoday at 12:13 PM

Does this work in the UK?

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