Hey all! I recently found a prepaid card in my country that has 3-D secure payment support (with a small fee) and was wondering if this is a good setup to pay for Proton Pass, Mullvad, and maybe even online shopping in the future. I walk to my closest ATM and take about $100 of my local currency o…

[image] FranklyFlawless: Typically you will be required to provide valid personal information, such as shipping address and a phone number, along with a recipient name. I actually should have thought of this myself.. one of those days I guess xD [image] FranklyFlawless: if you are trying…

[image] zo2uwu: I thought I would share and get some feedback in-case I am missing anything important! [image] Help with my email setup person_raising_handQuestions Prepaid gift cards can be purchased with cash, but using prepaid gift cards for transacti…

Anonymized data is not necessarily anonymous, supposedly. I wouldn’t trust their process based on that sentence. Mullvad and proton accept both cash and monero, so you might consider that. Privacy Guides’ article about financial transactions is relevant: [image] Financial Services - Priv…

Yeah a lot of companies “anonymize” data but its quite easy to de-anonymize it (from what I have read about on the topic) I can send Mullvad cash but the only issue is sending cash is prohibited in my country, and from what I have seen online there is a low success rate in general with sending cash …

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Help with my email setup Prepaid gift cards can be purchased with cash, but using prepaid gift cards for transactions will typically require providing personal information due to KYC/AML. Lets say I get the card in cash and no PII is required, great. I then go to purchase something online, an…

[image] zo2uwu: I then go to purchase something online, and lets say the payment processor is Stripe and require KYC, how do they get this? Typically you will be required to provide valid personal information, such as shipping address and a phone number, along with a recipient name. In additi…

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