• diffusive@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).

      When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that

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        8 days ago

        Ah, I’ve occasionally had a similar thing. Not common but several times