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Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per som

Privacy.com gets pretty close. They can generate burner cards or "per service" (such as a card just for your netflix account) that have spending limits per some period of time or in total. Their autofill plugin for firefox works pretty well. That's the extend of my usage of the service, it might do more but I'm not sure. Personally, I use them for anything that doesn't accept paypal or similar payment systems. Hopefully that's helpful.

empyrical 7y ago
Is there anything like Privacy.com, but for Canadians? I really like the idea of being able to have per-service burner cards
- mr_november 7y ago
  Not an ideal solution but you may want to look at prepaid credit cards. In my case, I use USD prepaid cards via CIBC for SaaS subs. https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/prepaid/cibc-smart-prepaid-visa-card.html https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/prepaid/cibc-smart-...
  - skunkpocalypse 7y ago
    Gift cards are getting a lot less useful now that merchants can auto-reject them by setting the "this is a recurring payment" flag. All newly-issued gift cards (in the US at least) reject those transactions. Even if it is a payment that recurs zero times.
zapita 7y ago
I also use privacy.com and it’s great. The only problem is that sometimes merchants don’t accept prepaid debit cards (that’s what privacy.com cards are under the hood). So far I’ve had cards rejected by Patreon and AT&T. I still recommend privacy.com though.
- woadwarrior01 7y ago
  Also, DigitalOcean. I'd used a prepaid debit card with them in the past, but they don't accept them anymore.
  - dotancohen 7y ago
    DO has some decent tech support. I would try to contact them and see if they could accept the card.
  - sah2ed 7y ago
    Adding that prepaid debit card to your PayPal account, then paying DO with PayPal works seamlessly.
diminoten 7y ago
I'd use privacy.com but I really like the points my CC gets me...
edoo 7y ago
That reminds me, paypal used to have a one time/subscription CC generator browser plugin way back in the day. It was great. I used it all the time and one day it just disappeared.

empyrical 7y ago

Is there anything like Privacy.com, but for Canadians? I really like the idea of being able to have per-service burner cards

mr_november 7y ago
Not an ideal solution but you may want to look at prepaid credit cards. In my case, I use USD prepaid cards via CIBC for SaaS subs. https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/prepaid/cibc-smart-prepaid-visa-card.html https://www.cibc.com/en/personal-banking/prepaid/cibc-smart-...
- skunkpocalypse 7y ago
  Gift cards are getting a lot less useful now that merchants can auto-reject them by setting the "this is a recurring payment" flag. All newly-issued gift cards (in the US at least) reject those transactions. Even if it is a payment that recurs zero times.

zapita 7y ago

I also use privacy.com and it’s great. The only problem is that sometimes merchants don’t accept prepaid debit cards (that’s what privacy.com cards are under the hood). So far I’ve had cards rejected by Patreon and AT&T. I still recommend privacy.com though.

woadwarrior01 7y ago
Also, DigitalOcean. I'd used a prepaid debit card with them in the past, but they don't accept them anymore.
- dotancohen 7y ago
  DO has some decent tech support. I would try to contact them and see if they could accept the card.
- sah2ed 7y ago
  Adding that prepaid debit card to your PayPal account, then paying DO with PayPal works seamlessly.

diminoten 7y ago

I'd use privacy.com but I really like the points my CC gets me...

edoo 7y ago

That reminds me, paypal used to have a one time/subscription CC generator browser plugin way back in the day. It was great. I used it all the time and one day it just disappeared.