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I'm sorry but using strong authentication to make my payment is not a burden, it's a bloody feature.

Here's how much of a "burden" that is: you hold your ATM card next to the terminal. Done. Paid. Every once in a while (based on a configurable max per week) it will prompt for a PIN. Which you enter in 5 secs. That would be 1 in 10 payments.

Online payment: scan payment QR with phone, which takes me to my banking app. Authentication is FaceID, TouchID or PIN. Then you click "Yes". Done.

Both methods are highly secure, require no or minimal input and are extremely fast.



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