Is there something similar to privacy.com in Europe so I don’t have to enter my credit card information everywhere? Or another way to buy stuff online privately on many different stores and websites?
Is there something similar to privacy.com in Europe so I don’t have to enter my credit card information everywhere? Or another way to buy stuff online privately on many different stores and websites?
Do people in europe use credit cards? I remember hearing it wasn’t popular as much as the US. Isn’t debit more common?
We use them to pay online, of course. But the payment mechanism is different because most of the time they’re debit accounts not credit.
Depends where you go. My Czech bank card is a debit card with a number on it that you can use like a credit card. Dutch banks don’t have this and we use different online payment methods. I never really needed a credit card for anything (until I traveled in France) so the price to have one is not worth it.
Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one’s free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I’ve had it for quite a long time.
In Spain at least there’s quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a “credit card”, even debit ones.
No. It’s not as popular. In Germany most have a giro-card, but credit cards are becoming more popular. Many still prefer cash though.
I assume autocorrect screwed you?
For anyone else reading this: no, there is no such thing as girl-cards.
Yes thanks. I meant giro-card.
Can’t use cash online, (nearly*) anywhere.
In Sweden we almost exclusively use Credit/debit cards cash is extremely rare and a lot of shops don’t accept cash.
It has been this way for many years.