Do you use you card for payments in sandboxed Google play?
I have been hesitant to add my card because of privacy. I particular the fact that my card is linked to my email. What is your take on it?
I recommend using Privacy.com to create virtual credit cards that withdraw directly from a bank account. I see it as a VPN for credit card purchases. For US customers only, but obscures payment info to merchants.
You can use a bogus name and address for the merchant billing information (in this case Google Play).
Anything like that service for EU users?
Not that I'm aware of. A basic search didn't turn up anything promising.
Sadly I am not from the US
Like adding it to google pay? Or do you mean for electronic payments in a profile with sandboxed google play services?
I mean for electronic payments. But I would also be interested in knowing how you solve gpay in a privacy oriented way?
Oh just because sandboxed google services is installed doesnt mean your payment info is shared between different applications/websites assuming proper encryption on their end. If you want to improve your privacy for electronic payments like others said monero is best but since thats not widely used yet a card masking service is what you want for now. However you'll be relying on a third party, privacy.com is what the majority use afaik. As for gpay, privacy from google is basically nonexistent, obviously, but if you mean privacy from merchants then they already mask your card information for transactions iirc. I suggest either using a card masking service, another electronic money service such as paypal (shit privacy but you wont be tied to google), or even using a prepaid visa gift card or giftcards in general paid in cash at your local drugstore.
Just get gift cards.
Being married and getting paid opposite weeks, gpay is essentially the only google offering I am in no hurry to break free from.
Though it would be nice to see competition in the space.
If I must, then I would just keep an old phone with google, which never leaves home or wherever I keep it.
Cash is better than a card. And you can use Monero on any online store that takes crypto by using a swap service.
Buy monero with monero buy google gift card
How much money value do you lose in this process?
I was buying 1 month of VPN for 5€, but it cost me almost 20€ with all fees (I think it was ethereum) 😂 monero might be better, but small crypto transactions make no sense afaik
I do not know, but anonymity costs. Bitcoin is a lot cheaper at least for small amounts (idrk how monero works so no idea for large amounts) but not anonymous and not all that fast in transactions.