1y ago

Apple Cash will offer virtual card numbers for online shopping

www.engadget.com

26 comments

Apple consistently doubling down on consumer privacy is their BEST trait

You can get this from privacy.com but in my experience they never work with sites you really want them to, credit card processors have a list of their prefixes or something. Hopefully Apple can pull it off.
- Privacy dot com sells data
  
  Thanks for the heads up.
- Capital one (CC) has eno, which is virtual cards. I create a new one for every website... Works good. Every now and then someone will change how they charge (name) and break the virtual card. I've got well over 100 virtual cards.
  
  I actually keep very few virtual cards. I usually use them and then delete them; unless it's a recurring charge, or a frequent online use, I figure there's no reason to let them hang out since you can just make a new one if you need it.
- A lot of retailers don’t like prepaid credit cards because they’re an easy tool for fraud / money laundering. I wonder if Apple is going to be able to tighten things up so they can have this treated like the prepaid debit cards many states use for unemployment insurance.
- Yeah, I wonder if Apple can do better, especially with their market power.
- Mysudo also offers this service. I'm looking currently looking at them to get phone numbers for banking and such.
- Privacy.com is also US only.
  So is Apple Cash, but I have more hopes of Apple expanding that to other parts of the world, as their US-only services don’t usually stay that way for too long.
  
  Considering Apple Card has been US exclusive for many years now, I wouldn't get my hopes up for Apple Cash.
  
  You’re not missing out. I tried it with AliExpress, and a few others large online retailers with no luck. It worked with Backblaze, but I just sort of gave up after that… it’s not really something useful if it’s not accepted by most.

Pretty cool, I’ve always wanted to be able to use Apple Cash like a refillable debit card.

I remember when PayPal (I had bank too) did this. You could set an amount and only that would be authorized. You could also set a number of uses and after that the card number was no longer valid.

Actual good feature from apple.

My Capital One card has had this feature for a long time.

Will they need social security number (ssn) to set this up?
privacy.com used to offer a similar feature but then a while ago started requiring ssn due to new banking regulation.
If apple doesn't require it I wonder how they where able to sidestep the supposed regulation.

Still waiting Apple... 🇨🇦

No offense but I'm new to browsing /r/all here for a second, I thought this was an ad 😭
- lol. Yeah, that thumbnail scraped from Engadget looks like something one of the bloggers just yanked from a marketing email.

26 comments