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[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months 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.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who doesn't? Basically every adult has one. Or do u pay everything in cash? And don't u get automatically a debit card when u open a giro bank account?

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago

Debit and credit card are not the same card.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That sucks, they were the best for shady deals. Buy em with cash, and treat it like cash.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub -1 points 2 months ago

Say you didnt read the article without saying it