> The website for X1 advertises "End free trials automatically with auto-expiring virtual cards" [0] - if that takes off, would services just start blocking fol

> The website for X1 advertises "End free trials automatically with auto-expiring virtual cards" [0] - if that takes off, would services just start blocking folks from signing up for free trials with X1 cards? I use a Revolut card exactly that way, and it made my life so much easier. No need to phone someone between 8:30 and 9:45 on the first Saturday of the month to cancel subscriptions. No risk of paying for a month extra or lose access for a week after in-subscribing (all of this happened to me). So there are real benefits to this approach. Now, I use Revolut because I like my online purchase to be completely isolated from my main bank accounts, but both my French and my British (traditional and old-fashioned) banks offer the same single-use virtual cards for a modest fee. So filtering by issuing bank would not be really effective. I don’t know if these cards have numbers that can be used to recognise them, though, but I never had any trouble using them.