• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Android is open source so any European company can just fork their flavor the same way Huawei did.

      And there are alternatives to visa/mastercard but their local to each country: Cartes Bancaires in France, Girocard in Germany etc.

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        19 hours ago

        Local alternatives are not good enough. We need something that works internationally, otherwise it’s not a true alternative.

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        24 hours ago

        We also have MobilePay here in Denmark, Swish in Sweden, Bancomat in Italy.

        But I am still dubious there is proper sovereignty in the whole stack each one of these run on.

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          Nope, they just integrate visa/mastercard for international payments like most other European providers.

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            22 hours ago

            That was true, once upon a time. “Carte Bleue” is part of Visa Europe (which has been reintegrated into Visa. Inc in 2015) since 2010.