change your habits to default to contactless mobile pay (google pay, samsung pay, apple pay) or the tap to pay on your CC itself (if it has that wifi looking icon).

also acceptable is dipping your CC into a chip reader. make sure you're only inserting the tip.

*DO NOT* swipe your CC in 2022. it is the equivalent of clicking on the link inside a spam text. that goes double for at sketchy locations like gas stations and temporary ATMs. however card skimmers still do show up on bank ATMs and boujee stores like target.

when you swipe, your CC details 1) may have been intercepted by a skimmer as mentioned in the story, 2) are going to sit for years in the database of some payment processor with unknown security practices.