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Comment by yjk

What prevents me from cloning some product's website and changing the payment form to send me the details instead, which I then submit somewhere else to purchase something online for myself? Not sure why Stripe or PCI is even important here.

(IMO) what GP was arguing for is that we should have a fundamentally asymmetrical form of payment, viz. the information I give for one purchase should not be able to be reused for another purchase, like a one-time token. Imagine if you had to send your private key every time you wanted to purchase something in crypto, for example.

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