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Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by pluto9 »

d1zzy wrote: post #25
pluto9 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With all the horror stories I've heard of them shutting down peoples' accounts with no explanation, recourse, or way to recover their contents, I have to agree.

When was the last such horror story you heard? (and I specifically mean shutting down access to Google Account and all services) Last time I heard this type of story was back in Google+ times when it was trying to enforce some silly real name policy.

Here are some, published just a couple weeks ago: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-afte...

Several of these stories have appeared on HN just over the past year or so as well.

Edit: The amount of downvoting on this and my original comment is puzzling to me. If someone who takes issue with it would care to explain what the problem is, I'd sincerely like to hear about it.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by paulryanrogers »

d1zzy wrote: post #24
aeortiz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not at the beginning, but they reserve the right to change their TOS anytime.

And you will know when that happens and then you can stop using the service.

True yet just today I got a notice of terms changing effective ... Today, November 18th.

So one might only have hours to react before implicitly agreeing by failing to opt out or cancel. Perhaps even less of the change in terms is effective immediately.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by judge2020 »

urbandw311er wrote: post #29

Feel a bit sorry for the authors of Plex Media streaming software who woke up today to discover that their SEO is now ruined, and trademarks worthless.

This is in relation to banking, so I imagine searching "plex media" will still show plex.tv next year or will show up under Google Pay's 'Plex' like pandora currently does[0].

0: https://goo.gl/search/pandora

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by generalk »

Booted the new GPay app on my Android phone this morning.

"Sorry, Enterprise accounts are not supported on Google Pay."

I've been doing NFC payments through Google Pay for years with the current Google Pay app, so this is kind of a surprise.

Also, I do not have an "Enterprise account." I have a GAFYD account from around 2006. Over time Google's turned it into some limited bullshit account, and at this point I'd pay them just to turn all that shit off and turn me into a regular Google account -- or just close the damn thing down if I could transfer all the stuff I've purchased, which Google won't allow me to do.

My fault for trusting Google, but the landscape was way different in 2006.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by throwaway2048 »

d1zzy wrote: post #24
aeortiz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not at the beginning, but they reserve the right to change their TOS anytime.

And you will know when that happens and then you can stop using the service.

But yet they will still have all your data

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by joekrill »

generalk wrote: post #35

Booted the new GPay app on my Android phone this morning. "Sorry, Enterprise accounts are not supported on Google Pay." I've been doing NFC payments through Google Pay for years with the current Google Pay app, so this is kind of a surprise. Also, I do not have an "Enterprise account." I have a GAFYD account from around 2006. Over time Google's turned it into some limited bullshit account, and at this point I'd pay t…

I'm in the same situation. This used to happen often, years ago when they first introduced GAFYD, and I haven't had an issue in a long time. But looks like things are reverting back now.

Re: Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more

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Post by Whitespace »

> Most importantly, Google Pay will never sell your data to third parties or share your transaction history with the rest of Google for targeting ads.

I seriously doubt this, but I find it interesting that they address the elephant in the room in the launch announcement.

I wonder how many other Google launches will note this as a perk before the hammer comes down from up high?

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