Have you tried them for privacy purposes? What are your experiences?

Here is mine. I’ve used the Visa prepaid cards. Where I live (USA) you can buy them “anonymously”. Scare quotes because sure, nothing is 100% anonymous now. But you can buy them with cash and activate them without giving a phone #. Not quite as anonymous as cash, but close. It avoids the heavy data trail of a normal CC. And you can use them sometimes where you can’t use cash.

But there’s the prob. It’s hit and miss if they work. Unfortunately, these are HUGE among scammers, so those scammer fucks poisoned the well. Some stores will flat out deny them. Other times, they work fine.

I’ve had probs at some point of sale terminals, others work OK. Ditto gas pumps. Seems to be no way to know which way it’ll go without trying. Which means you gotta have another way to pay lined up.

I haven’t tried them for online shopping yet.

  • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Gotcha thanks. The VPN I use is one of the biggest commercial ones, so I assume lots of ppl using that IP at any given moment.

    It’s a good thing to think about. And yah, for more security, would be better to activate the CC in a different way.