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?
Not really the same thing, but Revolut has disposable virtual cards that you can use (but it’s a full-fledged bank).
Some apps like MBWay in Portugal also allow you to create these virtual cards, but it requires a Portuguese bank account.
Most online places are now aware of Revolut’s disposable CC numbers and reject them. They haven’t worked for at least a year now. They’re basically useless.
Edit: I should clarify: all CC payments nowadays use tokenization. The website doesn’t get the CC details, they get a token issued by your bank. The token can be one-time use, or recurrent. Naturally, for one-time cards Revolut issues one-time tokens. The problem is that many websites have caught up to it and require indefinitely-valid, recurrent tokens for any payment. I don’t think this is something that Revolut can solve on their side.
What a bummer, I used the disposable CCs with revolution a decade ago and was thinking of going back to it…no point if they’re not usable anymore.though.
What I use for such sites is a frozen card which I only unfreeze after setting a limit for my exact purchase amount. Pay, freeze again for the next time.
While the disposable cards might not always work, you can always create a regular virtual card and delete/freeze it afterwards. Not sure if there are any limits tho
You can also delete the payment token that was issued to that website.
My bank lists the currently valid recurrent tokens explicitly next to each card, and lets me revoke them individually (but I can also re-add a card to the merchant if I want to).
In the Revolut app it’s a bit wierder, you have to go to a card, tap on a past payment, and then you get a “block future payments” button that prevents that merchant from ever using that card, but there’s also a “subscription payment” toggle that only revokes the recurrent token for that particular payment.
The “block future payments” feature is severely limited on the free Revolut accounts, you can only do 3 blocks per month and can only have 5 total overall active. So you probably want to turn off the subscription toggle instead.
