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De-googled contactless payment? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to move away from Google and other big tech corporations as much as I can without sacrificing practicality but it seems like the only way to make contactless payments is with stock android on a Google approved device.

Is there any alternative out there that would allow me to make contactless payments without these conditions met? (For example, if I put grapheneos on my phone)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are other payment solutions. I have never used them and do not know how widely they are accepted. Maybe Paypal, Venmo, and Square have POS solutions. I do not think they are NFC. Maybe QR-code based? This is from memory. Maybe someone else knows more.

But yes beyond the ones people talked about, crypto, and the three I mentioned I am not sure there are any others in the US.