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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by jasode on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:15PM (#11356919)
> will have to figure out how to get a similar "mix" to avoid being flagged as prepaid/single use. This was the issue that ultimately caused PayPal to kill the service

That's fascinating. Perhaps PayPal killed it for multiple reasons because the (possibly biased) answer from a PayPal said not enough people were using it: "The one-time card numbers -- technically they were MasterCard virtual debit card numbers -- were discontinued as a public user-facing feature because they were not generating sufficient transaction volume and revenue to warrant further development."

[1]https://www.quora.com/Why-did-PayPal-discontinue-their-one-t...

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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by harshreality on Thursday March 24, 2016 @07:24PM (#11357350)
Those might not be distinct reasons.

If a lot of merchants were flagging and rejecting transactions from Paypal's virtual CC BIN numbers, that would prevent people from using it very often, leading to "not generating sufficient tx volume", right?

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