Even if you delete it in Stripe, I very much doubt that stripe or the credit card providers will be deleting the data.
Someone will know that Mr Smith has a mulvad VPN subscription. They just won't know his username on the service.
Someone will know that Mr Smith has a mulvad VPN subscription. They just won't know his username on the service.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-shredding
They also mentioned it's about less data, not about zero data. The moment you use a credit card, of course it's stored in a bunch of places. But this won't be stored with them.