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[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Privacy.com. You can mint a credit card with a $0 limit (or $1 if they need to do a test transaction) and kill it right after.

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Seems to be for americans only, sadly.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 18 points 1 year ago

In Europe you can probably use Revolut, they let you generate single-use cards.

Please note however that websites can tell it's a single-use card and refuse to accept it. Most recently Amazon and their related services (Twitch etc.) started refusing them.

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I already have Revolut but those single use cards can't be used on subscribtion services sadly.

[-] provomeister@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

There's KOHO for Canadians, still not a proper Privacy.com replacement but you get two Mastercard cards (one physical & one digital) and they are refillable via Interac payments.

When doing trials, I set a few dollars on the card to ensure if they try to do a 1$ transaction to verify the card and I'm good to go. Even if I forget to cancel, the payment won't pass.

[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

That's where the VPN comes in?

[-] teddy-bonkerz@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

+1 for privacy.com

Should be a default feature with all card issuers

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

If you're getting "site not found": https://privacy.com/

http://privacy.com/ doesn't work, it doesn't answer on port 80.

[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Fascinating. I use Firefox with "Force HTTPS" enabled so I never noticed this before.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Does that mean you can't explore sites like toastytech.com?

[-] eochaid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I just get a "Secure site not available" warning with a button to proceed into the HTTP site anyway

[-] imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I defer to second image on this post when I see that

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

Which is not a good look for privacy.com. You have to be either very lazy to not set up the redirect, or use a very cheap service that doesn't allow you to do it.

[-] Glitchington@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No, it's just ensuring SSL encryption to their servers at all times. It's the best possible look for a website called privacy.com. If they allowed http connections, those connections aren't guaranteed to be private (encrypted).

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

I'm talking about leaving http://privacy.com (the non-secured version) not leading anywhere. It's an amateur move.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Right. I don't feel like trusting my CC information to a company that doesn't even know how to do a redirect.

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