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I'm in Canada and I can literally just tap the card itself on the reader. Every card has this ability and it can't be skimmed.

There are many demonstrations of contactless cards being “skimmed.”

Unless you store it in a wallet with a faraday cage, this is a laughable opinion to express.

It's not the same as traditional card skimming since you can clone the magnetic stripe you skimmed onto another card and buy things with it.

If you grab data from a tap transaction, you can't use that data to perform another tap transaction.