This is finally changing. Dutch banks are - after years of dilly dallying - finally replacing legacy Maestro cards with Mastercard that you can use online. Yes, you still have to go via 2fa, but at least, I don’t have to deal with iDeal anymore with risky merchants.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 week ago
You still won’t be able to pay on the majority of American sites, since they lack a proper payment platform.
rroa@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Every American store supports credit cards in the form of Mastercard and Visa. Dutch cards will also work the same. With the extra requirement of 2FA, but that’s handled by pretty much every payment gateway, the merchant doesn’t get involved in that.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Most Dutch cards won’t work on North American sites. Our cards have an IBAN listed which cannot be entered on American sites. Paying with just the numbers on the card is not possibile unless it is a credit card or smething like Revolut iirc, which is bascially using the unsecure cards the American way or the 2FA system you explained, but that’s not most cards.
rroa@reddthat.com 1 week ago
Dutch bank cards are now being replaced with Mastercard, unlike the old Maestro ones, they also have 16 digit numbers that can be used online.