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Are all Virtual Card providers careless with privacy? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 month ago by FatherPeanut@pawb.social to c/privacy@programming.dev
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I went looking through different virtual card providers for something that'd let me make a purchase I originally intended to use a prepaid for, yet they wouldn't accept it. This led me to looking into Virtual Card providers as they'd work more consistently.

Problematically, Privacy.com seems overkill on what all it demands as far as KYC standards go, and some suggest IronVest as an alternative because it demands less. Yet, their privacy policy explicitly states they can share your information with advertising partners.

I haven't encountered many providers, but seeing this trend, I wanna raise the question: Is there any virtual Card provider that really cares for privacy, and the privacy-minded?

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

More new comments (see rest of my comments in this thread).

Privacy.com finally verified me. So I guess I'm gonna use that. I don't think it's very good at being private, but I want virtual cards as more of an anti scam thing.