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Are there alternatives for Europeans who dont want to be "purchase taxed" by VISA and MASTER CARD?

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Are there alternatives for Europeans who dont want to be "purchase taxed" by VISA and MASTER CARD?

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Buy European@feddit.uk · 21 hours ago

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Interestingly, I just (10 minutes ago) learned about

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

which seems to be in a fledgling stage but still further along than

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
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  Danmark (and Finnland apparently, I think I’ve also seen it in Sweden?) also have
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobilePay
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    Here in Sweden most people use Swish

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