"We just think that you just shouldn't have to share your personal info with a random merchant you want to buy something from."
FWIW, this is, and has been, possible with regular credit cards for as long as I've used them (20 years ?)
Nobody anywhere checks the name on a card. Nobody. Not amazon, not google, not a small online retailer, not a large one. Nobody. Zero.
I made up a default fake name ten years ago and have used it consistently for everything from DirecTV[1] to my daily-used Amazon account to magazine subscriptions.
Yes, of course they have an address (not my home, but an address I control) and of course a global observer (or just my bank) can correlate and index everything I purchase ... but not any of those vendors.
[1] Yes, this does indeed imply that I paid them the big up-front payment instead of allowing them to do a credit check with my name and social. This is a very rare downside, however.
FWIW, this is, and has been, possible with regular credit cards for as long as I've used them (20 years ?)
Nobody anywhere checks the name on a card. Nobody. Not amazon, not google, not a small online retailer, not a large one. Nobody. Zero.
I made up a default fake name ten years ago and have used it consistently for everything from DirecTV[1] to my daily-used Amazon account to magazine subscriptions.
Yes, of course they have an address (not my home, but an address I control) and of course a global observer (or just my bank) can correlate and index everything I purchase ... but not any of those vendors.
[1] Yes, this does indeed imply that I paid them the big up-front payment instead of allowing them to do a credit check with my name and social. This is a very rare downside, however.