At least in Australia you absolutely can have a debit card under 18 and it’s extremely common for adults to not have a credit card.

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jsheard 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> At least in Australia you absolutely can have a debit card under 18

Same in the UK, but Steam uses credit cards for age verification there and refuses if you provide a debit card instead. Evidently the payment backends can tell credit and debit apart.

	▲	monocasa 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Evidently the payment backends can tell credit and debit apart. Yeah those are parallel systems for reasons that amount to technical debt.