Klarna's digital credit card is reported by users to successfully work for age verification on Steam in Australia.

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        "author": "mythridium",
        "excerpt": "I am not opening a credit card nor will I open a debit account with another bank. I'll just wait for them to add more options, I've opened a support ticket so they at least get the feedback.",
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        "excerpt": "Okay now that I have verified my age for adult content online, let me access said content, let me have the Halloween game and let me pretend gamble in GTA5",
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        "excerpt": "I’ve seen a lot of comments here and in other threads that are upset at Valve or upset at these new Codes and legislation.\n\n As much as I think Valve and other companies deserve to get smacked down for their shit (E.g., now having to offer refunds thanks to the ACCC), I fully support them in their lack of effort/offering alternative methods of age verification.\n\n These changes are completely stupi",
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        "excerpt": "EDIT: No longer working\n\n Up debit card - SPECIFICALLY the Zap Card - worked for me, I didn't even have to relink it as my card has previously been saved. It just lets me change the Mature Content settings and I can access R18 games store pages and community hubs.",
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    "post_text": "Yesterday, the online digital gaming platform Steam (Valve) complied with the Australian \"Age-Restricted Material App Distribution Services Code\" by blocking Australians access to from mature content behind the linkage of an age verified payment card.\n\nNot just limiting access to outright sexually explicit games, but popular games with mature themes such as Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher franchise, Newer Resident evil titles and Last of us franchise.\n\nSteams implementation of age assurance doesn't utilise any personal data collection but instead is done through card linking, and checking the \"over 18\" verification services some banks provide alongside their cards.\n\nValve explicitly call out credit cards BUT Steam users have noticed that SOME debit cards work.\n\nOnline ID Verification doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, so I was interested in learning what debit cards exist that currently work to authenticate \"over-18\" status, and if this adoption will increase in the future.\nDebit Cards\n== WORKING ==\n\nCommbank (Mastercard)\n\nWestpac (Mastercard)\n\nMaquarie (Mastercard)\n\nBankwest (Mastercard)\n\nAMP GO (Mastercard)\n\n== MAYBE WORKING ==\n\nRACQ Bank (VISA)\n\n== NOT WORKING ==\n\nING (VISA)\n\nNAB (VISA)\n\nANZ (VISA)\n\nBendigo Bank (Mastercard)\n\nUp Bank (Mastercard)\n\nPeople First Bank (VISA)\n\nCapricornian (VISA)\n\nUBank (VISA)\n\nGreater Bank (VISA)\n\nBank of Melbourne (VISA)\n\nWise Debit...",
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