Could they not still send the debt to collections and ding your credit?
It doesn't guarantee the vendor will win a final judgement but no court is going to prevent them from tracking you down.
evidence for that, please?
There are numerous advantages to a privacy.com number besides cancellation:
* you're sure that your real credit card will not leak out when (not if) they get hacked.
* You get notified every time the card is charged (or declined).
* You can set dollar limits so they can't pile on other charges.
* You have a complete record of all the charges on that card. You know that no other vendor can use it.
So refusing a privacy.com card, if they can even do it, would be a consumer-unfriendly act.
But of course no merchant is going to go through the effort and expense to do all this, unless you owe them a decent chunk of change. A couple months of a $15/mo subscription likely doesn't clear that bar.
If privacy.com doxed their users for some random company, that would ruin the whole purpose of their service...
Unknown. Do you have some evidence of that?