Can one use a pre-paid debit card with privacy.com?

Has anyone tried this?

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You cannot. As well as PayPal cash/debit, and similar services offered by cashapp & chime.
- Privacy.com cards are for blocking companies from charging you money you don't want spent. It is not for obfuscating your actual identity.
  
  In my experience, it does a good job of obscuring my identity from websites with questionable security practices (e.g. ones that rolled their own payment processors and are clearly questionably coded, or just ones that could be).
  
  And it obscures the nature of your purchases from your bank.
  
  You can use a Privacy card with any name you want on it although some small vendors with actual people running the purchase process can read and take issue when the "card" is supposedly issued to a "Mybig Blackdog"
- Thanks
Privacy.com is technically a bank, so you're going to need to identify yourself in some way regardless.
AFAIK, they only allow you to connect your checking account.
You can't with privacy.com or other big services, but there are other services that let you either generate a no-KYC reloadable credit card, or buy a prepaid international card that works for almost everything.

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