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by latencyloser 2420 days ago
Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per some period of time or in total. Their autofill plugin for firefox works pretty well. That's the extend of my usage of the service, it might do more but I'm not sure.

Personally, I use them for anything that doesn't accept paypal or similar payment systems. Hopefully that's helpful.

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I also use privacy.com and it’s great. The only problem is that sometimes merchants don’t accept prepaid debit cards (that’s what privacy.com cards are under the hood).

So far I’ve had cards rejected by Patreon and AT&T.

I still recommend privacy.com though.

Also, DigitalOcean. I'd used a prepaid debit card with them in the past, but they don't accept them anymore.
Adding that prepaid debit card to your PayPal account, then paying DO with PayPal works seamlessly.
DO has some decent tech support. I would try to contact them and see if they could accept the card.
Is there anything like Privacy.com, but for Canadians? I really like the idea of being able to have per-service burner cards
Not an ideal solution but you may want to look at prepaid credit cards. In my case, I use USD prepaid cards via CIBC for SaaS subs. https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/prepaid/cibc-smart-...
I'd use privacy.com but I really like the points my CC gets me...
That reminds me, paypal used to have a one time/subscription CC generator browser plugin way back in the day. It was great. I used it all the time and one day it just disappeared.