I'm not sure, since I've never owned a credit card. Debit cards pull directly from your account and you have very limited credit available. Also you don't have card numbers etc. you could use online.
I've had to look up what that is, that's how rare credit cards are here. It seems to exist. However, I'm reluctant to adopt a whole new payment method for one single use case. Also Visa and Mastercard aren't necessarily more trustworthy than paypal and co.
Like others have said, I only have debit cards, as does the large majority in my country. Credit cards are only ever useful while traveling. And I'm not going to gift my private info to data brokers like paypal just because I want video games. Meaning I'm literally looking at the end of an era, because I don't know of any other way to purchase games on steam anymore.
Brave Browser has faced controversy primarily due to its auto-completion of URLs with affiliate links that earned the company commissions without user consent, which raised concerns about transparency and user privacy. Additionally, its integration of cryptocurrency features has sparked debate over whether these add unnecessary complexity and potential privacy risks.
Putting aside that the whole protect the children act is just a premise to kill anonymous browsing, a lot of people are in a situation were they need to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. Parenting is literally a luxury at that point. Which coincidentally is also the reason birthrates in the developed world are plummeting.
Since the dawn of LLMs it's virtually impossible to scrape web content. Headless browsers have become basically useless. I actually have to automate keyboard inputs to simulate the navigation. I could maybe try to write the javascript cache to file but honestly it's just faster that way.
The data is non critical and doesn't contain indentifying info so I use ocr.space API. You could probably find ways to use the tesseract libraries locally.
A governmental-ish site I'm required to use doesn't push notifications as mails, so you have to login daily to check for updates. Updates may happen multiple times daily or once a month. I automated my server to access the site once a day with my credentials, screenshot the notifications, parse them with ocr, and send myself a mail.
The fact that participating in society is becoming dependent whether you're a customer of one of two big corpos with obvious evil intentions is so deus ex distopian to me... Indentend servitude when?
That's a bit unfair. Postmarket is super cool and I can't wait to get a Linux phone. But let's not pretend it's ready to be daily driven. Even on the best supported phones there are still hardware driver compatibility issues. And that's not even speaking about the software catalog. Even in the privacy community, a lot of people regard banking apps as mandatory. Good luck ever getting those to run there.
I don't use tor much. My main use case at the moment is using the tor browser for all the sites that block me because I use a vpn. Works most of the time. I have a small list of onion sites that are only accessible through tor but it's more of "break glass in case of privacy emergency" type of thing.
Sadly I'm not in one of those regions. Here are my available options: