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Does anyone on HN have experience with this service or a personal comparison with Blur? I’ve used delete me which works well enough (from the people that make

Does anyone on HN have experience with this service or a personal comparison with Blur? I’ve used delete me which works well enough (from the people that make Blur), but I’ve ended up just using the Apple Card which has a tiny amount of the privacy guarantees without a lot of the hassle (and good software). I’ve been tempted to switch to one of these services though, but I think your data still gets resold by the card processor?

junon 5y ago
Never heard of Blur, but I've used Privacy.com successfully for... man, maybe five years? Never had any issues with them. Not one. They always Just Work, their app doesn't change every six months, I hardly ever have to log in. Everything 'Just Works'. They've been great. The card reset is a tad unfortunate but isn't really an issue since they're all named/branded accordingly.
- zhynn 5y ago
  Adding my voice to this experience. I have been a user for about 2 years, and I love it. I also appreciate that they support non-txt 2fa for login security. My only quibble is that I wish I could generate a card that I could give to a someone else that had a limit cap but could be used at more than one site/vendor (the current method really wants you to use them at only a single vendor, which is generally exactly what I want). Like an allowance card basically.
mattnewton 5y ago
Privacy.com has been fantastic for me - AMA. However I am such a heavy user that this announcement is actually rather annoying. I didn't see an email about it yet either, and could have easily missed that I am going to need to update 10 or so subscriptions this month :/
- octopoc 5y ago
  Can you hook Privacy.com up to a budgeting app that uses e.g. Plaid or Finicity to monitor transactions?
  - r-w 5y ago
    Don't use Plaid. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fintech-firm-plaid-agrees-58-mln-deal-end-privacy-case-2021-08-06/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fintech-firm-plaid-...
  - andrewmunsell 5y ago
    All my budgeting apps work fine (merchant name can be a little bit of a mess sometimes) since the transactions come through individually in my bank.
  - mattnewton 5y ago
    Not 100% sure since don't use those apps, I actually pay for privacy.com to obfuscate what the money was spent on so my bank doesn't know either in it's budgeting view. But if you don't do that I think budgeting apps should be able to work, since the merchant name is passed through in the transaction metadata. Bank of America correctly categorized transactions before I disabled this, so I imagine your other apps might work.

junon 5y ago

Never heard of Blur, but I've used Privacy.com successfully for... man, maybe five years? Never had any issues with them. Not one. They always Just Work, their app doesn't change every six months, I hardly ever have to log in. Everything 'Just Works'. They've been great. The card reset is a tad unfortunate but isn't really an issue since they're all named/branded accordingly.

zhynn 5y ago
Adding my voice to this experience. I have been a user for about 2 years, and I love it. I also appreciate that they support non-txt 2fa for login security. My only quibble is that I wish I could generate a card that I could give to a someone else that had a limit cap but could be used at more than one site/vendor (the current method really wants you to use them at only a single vendor, which is generally exactly what I want). Like an allowance card basically.

mattnewton 5y ago

Privacy.com has been fantastic for me - AMA. However I am such a heavy user that this announcement is actually rather annoying. I didn't see an email about it yet either, and could have easily missed that I am going to need to update 10 or so subscriptions this month :/

octopoc 5y ago
Can you hook Privacy.com up to a budgeting app that uses e.g. Plaid or Finicity to monitor transactions?
- r-w 5y ago
  Don't use Plaid. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fintech-firm-plaid-agrees-58-mln-deal-end-privacy-case-2021-08-06/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/fintech-firm-plaid-...
- andrewmunsell 5y ago
  All my budgeting apps work fine (merchant name can be a little bit of a mess sometimes) since the transactions come through individually in my bank.
- mattnewton 5y ago
  Not 100% sure since don't use those apps, I actually pay for privacy.com to obfuscate what the money was spent on so my bank doesn't know either in it's budgeting view. But if you don't do that I think budgeting apps should be able to work, since the merchant name is passed through in the transaction metadata. Bank of America correctly categorized transactions before I disabled this, so I imagine your other apps might work.