▲ 701 ▼ Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' (www.pcgamer.com) submitted 1 year ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 214 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] JordanZ@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children) I don't know if they do, but I've used a service before that provides similar functionality, a "temporary proxy credit card", which also permits one to not even provide one's real name and address to a vendor. But it's more work to set one up than it is to do a PayPal transaction. Like, I could do it if a vendor doesn't permit for PayPal payments and I really really want what the vendor is selling, but PayPal does the big "the vendor doesn't get your credentials" security fix and avoids creating extra hurdles for a purchaser to jump through. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* Some Citi cards and privacy.com let you do this. Privacy.com takes a business day or two to verify you though permalink fedilink source parent [–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards. Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It's opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago My provider unfortunately doesn't, so I have to rely on PayPal as the proxy. I use USD, so I guess I won't be too affected, but it is a bummer that I can't seem to ditch them. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children) I don't know if they do, but I've used a service before that provides similar functionality, a "temporary proxy credit card", which also permits one to not even provide one's real name and address to a vendor. But it's more work to set one up than it is to do a PayPal transaction. Like, I could do it if a vendor doesn't permit for PayPal payments and I really really want what the vendor is selling, but PayPal does the big "the vendor doesn't get your credentials" security fix and avoids creating extra hurdles for a purchaser to jump through. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* Some Citi cards and privacy.com let you do this. Privacy.com takes a business day or two to verify you though permalink fedilink source parent [–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards. Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It's opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Archer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* Some Citi cards and privacy.com let you do this. Privacy.com takes a business day or two to verify you though permalink fedilink source parent
[–] amju_wolf@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards. Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It's opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago My provider unfortunately doesn't, so I have to rely on PayPal as the proxy. I use USD, so I guess I won't be too affected, but it is a bummer that I can't seem to ditch them. permalink fedilink source parent