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by jmanderley 3198 days ago
Except getting skimmed and disputing charges is annoying, not something I care to deal with. I'd rather we have more secure infrastructure that doesn't sustain criminal activity.
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I've been skimmed twice, and both times the (major US) banks made it super easy to dispute and I had my money back in a matter of minutes.

Now I keep a low-limit branded gas card that can only be used at gas stations. Go ahead and skim me. All they can do is charge $30 worth of Munchos and beef jerky.

It takes 5 minutes and a few clicks on a web site now a days. I'm all for more security too but like OP it isn't really my responsibility nor my liability so I have little care.
My last bank made that easy. But required a new card and a new PIN, and immediately and automatically cancelled the old one. As I was abroad at the time, this was not a fun process. Not that it's particularly fast even if you walk into a branch.
This is one of the reasons I think it's important to have more than one credit card when traveling (especially abroad). Redundancy in case one get shut down at an inconvenient time in an inconvenient place.