• ISOmorph@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    Like others have said, I only have debit cards, as does the large majority in my country. Credit cards are only ever useful while traveling. And I’m not going to gift my private info to data brokers like paypal just because I want video games. Meaning I’m literally looking at the end of an era, because I don’t know of any other way to purchase games on steam anymore.

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    12 days ago

    Bad thing in my opinion.

    I used them to menage my funds to not to overspend.

    Need to connect card to account, leaks happen.

    More info to steam, you could use steam even without giving any personal details just by buying physical gift cards.

    I had given them few times as gift.

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      12 days ago

      One thing that can help with leaks is to not save your CC info with the account. Then it just gets used for the transaction and isn’t saved outside of the payment system, so less of a vector for it to make it on a leak database. Also helps control spending by adding more inertia between this side and the far side of a purchase.

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        12 days ago

        Change to a bank that cares enough of their customers to enable virtual cards, you can create and revoke numbers as much as you like.