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Is there something similar to privacy.com in Europe so I don’t have to enter my credit card information everywhere? Or another way to buy stuff online privately on many different stores and websites?

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[–] hotpot8toe@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

Do people in europe use credit cards? I remember hearing it wasn't popular as much as the US. Isn't debit more common?

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 3 points 3 months ago

Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one's free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I've had it for quite a long time.

In Spain at least there's quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a "credit card", even debit ones.

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