Privacy.com was a perfect expression of “Your business is our feature”.
Practically every major card issuer provides native virtual numbers now.
Practically every major card issuer provides native virtual numbers now.
This is a feature of the past, and most providers don't do it anymore. The only one I know of is Capital One's Eno: https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/virtual-card-numbers/
Bank Of America retired theirs (and lost the retirement page): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-9i6Vr...
I remember BofA used to. When they closed it, I thought everyone else followed suite.
2) For a knowledgeable consumer, there is huge incentive to use services like this to prevent the credit companies from being a single point of financial data aggregation. But—and here I guess I'm talking to amex again—if disposable or per-merchant card numbers are widely offered by card providers, I'd expect most people would just use those instead of a more robust provider like privacy.com.