Google Play just opened Pandora's box: You can now bug your friends to pay for you
TL;DR
- Google is expanding its “Ask someone to pay” feature for the Play Store.
- Users in the US, Japan, Mexico, and Indonesia will now have access to the feature.
- This option allows you to ask someone outside of your Google family group to pay for a transaction.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-play-store-new-payment-method-3560534/Open linkView original on reddthat.com
Oh FFS.
WHY?!
Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?
They get extra revenue from sales. If they're scams, well that's okay too, as long as they get a cut.
They're not scams, they're surprise purchases
Sending requests to all of my contacts to pay for my slutty skins microtransactions as soon as this releases globally 💋
My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.
My friends can't bug me even if they want because I don't have a Google account 😀
Ha! Jokes on you google, I don't have any friends......
Don't worry, soon you'll have a lot! All asking you to pay for something!
Hahahah good luck with that, I'm poor as fuck.
It's not about the money, it's about the wonderful experience of hundreds of payment requests from random users.
Can I reply back?
Only with money, so no I guess. :(
That's probably a good thing, I'd be calling them all poor cunts every time they requested money.
Ha! Speaking as a poor cunt myself, I do not see the problem with that...
Is that new? My play store country is set to India (so I can buy stuff dirt cheap) and that feature has been there as long as I remember.
That is answered in the second paragraph
Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.
How do people use the feature? Since I can't think of a case where I would use this, aside from a child wanting to buy something without the parent needing to put their credit card details on the kid's device
No idea really, I'm not Indian.
well this will bring about a whole new level of school bullying
I'm going to spam requests to Tim Apple & Elongated Musk
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