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Finally, someone tells me what a stripe would have to do with payments.

I was searching online for "stripe offline payment meaning -stripe.com" but overlooked "swiped (Magnetic stripe)" from linkedin content. Now it makes sense, that this kind of stripe is meant. My cards have a dummy stripe in that place, since the early 2000s I have not seen actual magnetic foil in that place on my cards in germany.

The original version of the stripe website had a black stripe as the top border, evoking a credit card, so the association was clearer.

I always thought it was the case just because there are card strip readers

How can you tell that it's not actually magnetic foil on your card? It's possible that the foil can be coloured, and my understanding is that the foil is still required today for international use cases

It always bothered me that Square reads the magnetic stripe but Stripe does not.

I also think that is why they ended up with stripe over all the other candidates.