I’m thinking about credit/debit cards, but I’m sure there’s more I haven’t considered.

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I tried to sign up but they required my picture holding my ID. Even my bank doesn’t require that. I was not OK with that obviously.

To me it is just shifting trust from 1 entity to another like VPNs

Cryptic Fawn
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I tried to sign up but they

Who is they?

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Oh yeah, I was replying to a post that mentioned privacy.com - that is who, I meant, asked me for my ID to be able to sign up for their service

Lengsel
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Specify who you are referancing.

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privacy.com ask for picture of ID to sign up

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