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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Discover, American Express, Diner’s Club, and the one that still rules them all, Cash. There are probably others, but Visa and Mastercard are the two largest.

[-] seralth@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Diners club hasn't been available to normal people and small businesses for years now. It's basically a large business company card only thing nowadays.

[-] arararagi@ani.social 10 points 1 week ago

How do I transfer my cash to online stores?

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 12 points 1 week ago

You can in Japan apparently. They have a system where you can go to convenience store and pay by scanning a code

You can also sorta use zelle, but the technical integration is not great. It's a very manual process as it is

Ultimately, the problem is we let two companies dominate commerce itself. We just need to let the governmet do payment processing, and require compatibility

[-] xep@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don't even need to leave your house.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Interac if you're Canadian, and if the store accepts e-transfers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

How hard can you throw?

Amex gift cards. Cashapp uses Block(Square) for their payment processing, which is easier to use because you can transfer funds to that from your bank.

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of places going cashless these days. Heck some of my kids friend went to target and couldn't buy anything because target didn't have the staff to run anything but the self checkout, which at this place didn't accept cash. They had to leave empty-handed.

[-] exu@feditown.com 3 points 1 week ago

Visa and MasterCard really are the only two you see in Europe

[-] dragontamer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Discover and Diners Club merged a few years ago btw. Discover also has an alliance with JCB.

So Discover network is actually really, really big.

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