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Man I can't wait for the European alternative.
If I wasn't forced to use this shit, I would burn that stupid plastic card in a heart beat.
the current european alternative does not have cards, only an app locked to googlified android and ios phones.
Also there's like 7 places you can actually use that. I'd get rid of my cards too immediately if there was an actual, viable, european alternative. I pretty much have to use Google on my phone anyways so that my current banking apps and other stuff work reliably, so at least for me it's smaller and better known evil than Visa.
They are working on an European alternative. Wero is just one backed project. The "digital euro" is what they are working on as an alternative. Though no idea how far that is.
Digital euro should/could/might be in wide use by 2029. But as with anything involving European burecraucy, who knows.