Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain'

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know if they do, but I’ve used a service before that provides similar functionality, a “temporary proxy credit card”, which also permits one to not even provide one’s real name and address to a vendor.

  But it’s more work to set one up than it is to do a PayPal transaction. Like, I could do it if a vendor doesn’t permit for PayPal payments and I really really want what the vendor is selling, but PayPal does the big “the vendor doesn’t get your credentials” securiry fix and avoids creating extra hurdles for a purchaser to jump through.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Citi cards and privacy.com let you do this. Privacy.com takes a business day or two to verify you though

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  • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards.

    Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It’s opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used.

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My provider unfortunately doesn’t, so I have to rely on PayPal as the proxy. I use USD, so I guess I won’t be too affected, but it is a bummer that I can’t seem to ditch them.

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