• Eochaid
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    6211 months 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.

      • lemmyvore
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        1811 months 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.

      • @provomeister@lemmy.ca
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        411 months 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
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        811 months ago

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

      • lemmyvore
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        311 months 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
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          511 months 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).

            • SokathHisEyesOpen
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              311 months ago

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