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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 mcintyre1994 »

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #5

Google already has too much info from email, location tracking, and search history. Getting into bank accounts is too much. It would let them know exactly how effective advertising is since they would see how money is spent and they already know what advertisements they show you. Sorry, but no. Hard pass from me.

As far as I know credit card companies have always sold transaction history - Google must surely be buyers of that data already. I’m sure this is intended to make that data flow more direct for them though, and easier to link it to a Google account this way.

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

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Post by sorenjan »

I see that they've added integrated chat. If Google would've had a coherent chat app strategy they could've integrated it there, but I guess separate chats in every app is almost as good.

There's no chance I'd use a service like this from Google by the way. I would probably had been interested if it had come from Google 15 years ago, but they have too much badwill since then, with all their cancelled services and stories of banned accounts.

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

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Post by generalk »

joekrill wrote: post #38
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.

I've been having issues for a while.

Couldn't sign up for Youtube TV with my main account. I could sign up for Google Play Music (formerly Google Music, now RIP) but I couldn't sign up for a family account.

Stuff like that. It gets frustrating after a while.

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

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Post by SomewhatLikely »

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.

You live by the short name, you die by the short name. Trademarks protect against consumer confusion. I'm not sure there would be much confusion here.

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

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Post by kevincox »

Whitespace wrote: post #40

> 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?

Disclaimer: I used to work at Google.

If it it written in the privacy policy or similar I would trust it. Of course that doesn't mean it will never change in the future.

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

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Post by stochastician »

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…

What the hell, I just tried this and it turns out to be true. Sometimes I think I should go work for google for a year just so I could rage internally about this sort of shit. I too have a GAFYD account I've been paying for since 2009.

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

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Post by kevindeasis »

Definitely cool! Theres only a very few things that they need to introduce, you guys prob know what it is. Once they do that, a lof of competitors will definitely start sweating...

I love my apple card, but kinda gets annoying on days when i have to switch to an android

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

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Post by personlurking »

There's going to be a lot of competition around CBDC/FedCoin wallet apps in 2021. With this update, Google Pay might be positioning themselves.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-brainard-idUSKBN1...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/357...

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