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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by witten on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:37AM (#17883206)
If you want to still use a "credit card" online without being tracked by the MasterCards or Visas of the world (or even individual merchants), then check out https://privacy.com/ .. It lets you generate a new credit card number for every transaction if you want.

I'm not affiliated with them.. Just a satisfied user. (Although happy to hand out referral links.)

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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by icebraining on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:20AM (#17884098)
How does that hide the data from Mastercard and Visa? Surely they must know who is behind every card number, otherwise who would they charge?
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by boling11 on Friday August 31, 2018 @10:53AM (#17886045)
Disclosure: I work for privacy.com

You can use pseudonymous billing info for the transaction. We then debit your underlying account afterwards.

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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by bencollier49 on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:03PM (#17888607)
Wouldn't that cause weird issues with rebates for faulty products?
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by witten on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:14AM (#17890171)
If I understand the way the process works, no. The credit card is attached (via privacy.com) to a checking account via ACH. So if you get a refund (or perform a chargeback) on one of your credit cards, then the resulting funds are just deposited into your checking account.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by tonylemesmer on Friday August 31, 2018 @02:16AM (#17883328)
Anyone know if there's a similar service to Privacy in the UK?
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by ionised on Friday August 31, 2018 @04:22AM (#17883853)
I was wondering the same.
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