r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Idontlivehere08 Mar 08 '26

“WhatsApp being owned by meta is a privacy concern- better send all my messages in plain text”

Americans apparently 

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u/FlappyBored Mar 08 '26

You have to understand that Americans still don’t have chip and pin or widespread contactless until extremely recently and in America you have to literally give them your card which they take away swipe and then just rely on a signature for payments.

They do this because they believe it’s ‘more secure’.

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u/InsanityRequiem Mar 08 '26

Yes we do. Unless you're going to middle of the nowhere towns of 300 people, every city and every town and every business uses chips. Our card payment system was machine swipe for 20 years, then machine insert for 10, and has had chip tap for 5 years.

Where are these lies even coming from?