Your browser or password manager offers an easy way to dodge one common data request: when a site invites you to save your credit card for future purchases. That eases one worry for the site — that you won’t have your wallet handy later on — but adds one worry for you, that the site won’t take sufficient care with your saved payment mechanism.
And as the exhausting history of credit-card fraud and data breaches suggests, too many sites and merchants still don’t understand their assignment.
If, however, you let your browser or password manager save your credit-card data, you benefit from much better security. Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Edge and Mozilla’s Firefox all protect these details with such security measures as requiring a biometric or other real-time confirmation to auto-fill a card — or requiring you to type the card’s “CVV” security code yourself.
Many third-party password managers such as the free Bitwarden and the subscription-only 1Password offer the same feature, further employing end-to-end encryption to ensure these companies can’t see the data you’ve saved.
In all of these cases, entering a credit card via this autofill takes much less time than typing in all those digits — which you’d have to do at a site anyway before it could make any trust-us offer to save your credit card.
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