Because, even if you do have a fully functional credit card which is not a given in many countries, US-based CC payment processors like Stripe are equally horrible third-party companies that gobble up all the data they can get their hands on somehow.
Seriously. You cannot even start “free trials” on US-based websites without handing over everything a bad actor would need for perfect identity theft.
Gorillazrule@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I agree with the sentiment, but the reason they’re looking at third party apps is to avoid the control that payment processing companies have over censorship following the whole Visa/MasterCard issue.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can keep buying porn games on steam with my third world country credit card. 🧐
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Third world countries sometimes tend to be more developed