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> - I don't have to create a new account or fuck around with giving some restaurant my credit card

In case you need to in the future, i'd recommend privacy.com for merchant-locked cards.

How has your experience been with privacy.com?

Usually gets your Uber account terminated or not able to sign up in the first place with a prepaid.

Hopefully not a problem with small businesses?

It does become a problem depending on their POS vendor deciding to flag prepaids, I've seen several dislike this because of the ability to modify transactions afterward / tip or something of the sort, for the restaurant industry.

Mine has been excellent apart from the daily limit and merchants that don't accept their cards like cloud providers. Takes a bit of regular activity before support will raise the limit but the fact that Privacy.com cards show up as prepaid (try it out with the Stripe api, for example) is a show stopper for some narrow use cases - which overlap almost perfectly with spammers so who can blame the merchants.

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