I think the TLDR is: use your own bank's card, as you will always end up with a card which is tied to your identity, so better give that info to as few bank institutions as possible, you gain no advantage by signing up with someone new.
On the other hand, if you need to convert and the fees are atrocious, then you could look into Revolut and others like that, but that doesn't really help your privacy, no matter how many virtual cards you make, since they're all in your name anyways
That does make sense! I like the point about older systems, I didn't even stop to think about how much storge space has exploded in such a short amount of time and how it started from incredibly small capacities at very high prices that could have been hard to justify for any company that realistically just needed to keep some records
Yes 2 bytes is absolutely fine for me in fact (waiting for this comment to age like milk in my cryo pod), but then if YEAR will just stay the same forever, will it become a relic of the past? If so, why YEAR in the first place, who would actually make use of it?
You can keep all the lines of those who didn't accept to the change with the original license, it will end up as a bad mix, but it's doable if the licenses are compatible
If the client (which encrypts the data in for an E2EE service) is open source and has also been audited by third parties than there's little reason to do so
But it sounds cooler when they don't know what it's about, right? Right??