Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What about virtual prepaid debit cards for online purchases?

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  • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, maybe a good idea to look into stuff like this. Do you know privacy friendly ones (who don’t sell or record your purchase history)?

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t really know any. I have a prepaid VISA with my bank. Had some fuckery happen to some of my accounts where I had my regular visa debit saved as payment method and I lost about 20€. I got them back but disabled the option for online payment for the card.

      So now I only use that prepaid with the exact amount of money needed to pay for what I am buying.

      I cannot really suggest any such cards that are separate services because I do not know any. Maybe look into if your bank has the option to get one.

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      • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, this sounds reasonaboe, guess I habe to check if my Bank offers something like that. Credit cards are quite uncommon where I live, most people just use normal girocards for paying in shops and stuff (or physical money)

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