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Google Chrome is getting built-in virtual credit cards

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> Bill Ready, Google’s president of commerce and payments

Nominative determinism strikes again!

Yes this was way too good. Bowser at Nintendo of America as runner up.

JWZ's law is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

I also look forward to this new subsystem starting to participate in the innumerable "use after free" CVEs that seem to plague Chrome

And, as always, I suspect this will only ever be available in the US.

and be datamined for ads.

If you have a Portuguese credit card, you can use MBWay to generate virtual debit cards connected to your main card. Also, revolut offers the same feature.

This is essentially what Privacy.com is doing:

https://privacy.com/

They mention exactly this in the article:

  This isn’t necessarily Google competing with companies like Privacy.com, which lets you create and use virtual cards across the web.

Wow, amazing! I sure hope they Embrace and Extend the web further in the coming years.

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