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Some far-right activists and conspiracy theories are advocating against card-payments and for cash, and it's pissing me off (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It's discrediting valid concerns against card-payments. It's invalidating how great cash is.

It's when the worst person you know makes a good point.

And things now are so Culture-Wars-y, nobody makes solid analyses any more, that when the far-right say cards are bad, everybody jumps to thinking cards are good.

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[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While the last pandemic investigation showed that those machines where you put in your pin in supermarkets had more bacteria/viruses than cash. Much more people using those terminals more frequently than any same coin or same bill.

Digital money is stolen more often and in higher amounts. People who are glorifying credit cards do it until they got scammed or hacked and loose all their savings or even their identity. They go from "credit card fuck yeah" to "why have I been so stupid?" within a minute.

And why would you even carry a large amount of money with you? People who use cash, use common sense in general.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Credit cards have charge backs and fraud protection, buddy. You are significantly safer using them. That's the benefit to them being privacy invasive.

Using chip is also a bit cleaner then swiping. You also don't use just a single dollar bill or coin, you are touching multiple quantities, giving and receiving.

Also your other replies are super toxic and you talk like a child so I'm just going to block you here.

[–] utopify_org@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Always those pathetic people overwhelmed by their own lives...