Making "legitimate" purchases on Amazon gets more difficult every day. The obvious solution is to buy directly from brands, but I keep using Amazon because it's

Making "legitimate" purchases on Amazon gets more difficult every day. The obvious solution is to buy directly from brands, but I keep using Amazon because it's less risky than spreading personal and credit card details across many sites. There's also Amazon prime... Hopefully better e-commerce solutions can eventually take over this trust, and more brands choose to sell direct. This would really help with the growing counterfeit problem. One-time-use credit card numbers also help. I used this feature all the time when Discover offered it, but unfortunately they stopped. Now companies like privacy.com now offer it as a service, but adoption is probably slowed down by needing to trade-off rewards for privacy. It's yet another reason why I hope cryptocurrencies succeed. In the future I want to pay for anything without the seller having access to my personal information. Even if you trust the merchant, it's too tempting for thieves. Maybe someday someone will also solve the issue around shipping details. Like a DNS for shipping addresses. That would be awesome.