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Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster

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SoftTalker · 1790097812 · focus · HN ↗
The 1990s called, they want this "problem that it might not be too late to solve" back.
Sorry, cash is all but dead in 2026. I use cash about once a month to pay my barber, because he doesn't take any form of electronic payments. That's the only need for cash that I have left. That and the quarter I keep in the car to unlock a shopping cart at Aldi.
1. inetknght · 1790097863 · focus · HN ↗
  > Sorry, cash is all but dead in 2026.
  Speak for yourself. I pay cash more than I don't.
  1. SoftTalker · 1790098133 · focus · HN ↗
    It's getting harder to do. More and more places are going exclusively cashless. I was at a college football game last Saturday and all the concessions are cashless now.
2. xyst · 1790098089 · focus · HN ↗
  Cash is dead? Tell that to my ice dealer.
  1. pirates · 1790102144 · focus · HN ↗
    He would take mobile and cashless payments if he knew how
moffkalast · 1790097999 · focus · HN ↗
Graphene's latest cope from common banking apps not working on their OS anymore? I suppose that's one way to get ahead of the problem, pronounce them all to be a disaster and not worth using :)
1. ozlikethewizard · 1790100924 · focus · HN ↗
  We just shitting on one of the last bastions of hacker culture for mobile tech now then? When did HN get such a taste for the boot?
  1. moffkalast · 1790101339 · focus · HN ↗
    Calling a bunch of elitist pricks who happily shit on everything except their dearest Pixel, who stand in line for Google's Android patches like some kind of modern age Oliver Twist, a 'bastion of hacker culture' is a bit of a stretch to be fair.
FabHK · 1790098362 · focus · HN ↗
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1. big_toast · 1790100147 · focus · HN ↗
  That's part of why larger bank notes like the €500 euro were discontinued.
  Oliver Bullough on Odd Lots podcast[0] talked about this issue recently (the large denominations). I guess he had a book "Everybody Loves Our Dollars" that went into this too.
  I found the argument compelling but hopefully there's a balance to be struck.
  [0]:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etylJHe_p7Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etylJHe_p7Q
Cider9986 · 1790098395 · focus · HN ↗
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Cider9986 · 1790098696 · focus · HN ↗
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chrisjj · 1790099727 · focus · HN ↗
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tim333 · 1790112899 · focus · HN ↗
I've yet to find it much of a disaster. I used to mostly use cash but now most of the everyday stuff like coffee and supermarkets is electronic. I'm not sure what's disastrous? You can still use cash if you want to do something illegal or iffy.
1. xethos · 1790133560 · focus · HN ↗
  Weed is legal in Canada. Last I checked, and it was certainly true when weed initially became legal in Canada, marijuana is still very illegal in the US, federally.
  So your VISA, Mastercard, or debit-backed-by-a-US-reachable-bank records can show you've been purchasing what the US Customs officers see as a highly illegal drug, and you potentially lied about it the last time you said you didn't.
  Depending on your ties to the States, like family, property, transiting across the border each day for work, or just an annual holiday, I would count that as a disaster.
  But I'm sure the US would never... /s
  <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/9hhkxw/us_border_officials_can_now_check_canadians/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/9hhkxw/us_border_of...
  1. tim333 · 1790191934 · focus · HN ↗
    I'd probably put buying drugs in the iffy category where cash is better.
creditupside · 1790178062 · focus · HN ↗
why its been happening for 60 years

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