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Google Chrome is getting built-in virtual credit cards

• tkanarsky 4y ago
  > Bill Ready, Google’s president of commerce and payments Nominative determinism strikes again!
  • rightbyte 4y ago
    Yes this was way too good. Bowser at Nintendo of America as runner up.
• mdaniel 4y ago
  JWZ's law is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law > Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. I also look forward to this new subsystem starting to participate in the innumerable "use after free" CVEs that seem to plague Chrome
• kidfiji 4y ago
  This is essentially what Privacy.com is doing: https://privacy.com/ https://privacy.com/
  • bertman 4y ago
    They mention exactly this in the article: This isn’t necessarily Google competing with companies like Privacy.com, which lets you create and use virtual cards across the web.
• smileybarry 4y ago
  And, as always, I suspect this will only ever be available in the US.
  • pornel 4y ago
    and be datamined for ads.
  • ranguna 4y ago
    If you have a Portuguese credit card, you can use MBWay to generate virtual debit cards connected to your main card. Also, revolut offers the same feature.
• solarkraft 4y ago
  Wow, amazing! I sure hope they Embrace and Extend the web further in the coming years.