Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months agoWhat about virtual prepaid debit cards for online purchases?
Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months agoWhat about virtual prepaid debit cards for online purchases?
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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)?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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)
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Are girocards like debit cards or something completely different?
I just checked and I assume you are Austrian. Worst case scenario hop over the southern border and open an account here. ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
But almost sure you have something similar there as well. We are in Europe after all and banking is jot stuck in the 19th century like in the US.