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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by wfunction on Thursday March 24, 2016 @06:56PM (#11357162)
I've never understood why virtual numbers can't be used across different merchants. Why is this? Are there any that do offer this capability?
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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by Nullabillity on Thursday March 24, 2016 @08:42PM (#11357726)
Doesn't that go against the whole point of this?
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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by wfunction on Thursday March 24, 2016 @08:57PM (#11357792)
No, since the ability to limit the amount and the expiration date as well as the ability to close a number at will is immensely useful on its own. (Citi lets you do all of those.)
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