I use PayPal to be the middle man to protect my credit card information when I purchase items online.
Of course I have grown less fond of PayPal and their scammy behavior (plus the password limit is 20, wtf?)
My question; is there an alternative to paypal to buy things online (without crypto as not all stores take such things), such as privacy.com (but for Europe).
Correct mw if im wrong, but I believe privacy.com is for US, Canada region.
My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.
Been looking for such an alternative too, that works in Europe
https://privacy.com/ for US https://www.revolut.com/ for EU?
Revolut was recently in the news for stopping working on degoogled OSes. And judging by the comments, it is very app-dependent.
Yes, you can’t use it without the app, I’m on a degoogled android and had to drop them when they made that change.
Damn, can’t you even spoof the operating system name?
I heard of monzo working with virtual cards but you might need to pay a subscription with other goodies
I think Magisk could allow fooling Play Integrity in this case, but not everyone wants to root their phones.
Revolut still works well on CalyxOS.
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Looks like we are doomed to use PayPal in Europe. What’s the hurdle to create a PayPal alternative?
The hurdle is that Europe tends to adopt things that are successful in the US, because it is convenient. Even most services and startups based in Europe are more or less copies of US products, with some notable exceptions of highly specialised applications. This unfortunate trend started in the 1970s, when the largest industrial players in Europe thought semiconductors were just a fad and consequently lost their competitive edge. It was seen as less risky to invest in commercially proven concepts than to actually innovate. This continues to bite us in the ass to this day.