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

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Post by thanhhaimai »

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.

Brynn Bardacke (Google Pay Senior Director) stated publicly that:

1) Google Pay will never sell your information.

2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties

3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads.

Source: https://youtu.be/A2hL32k7Y0I?t=934

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

#52

Post by quicklime »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #41
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.

> Google must surely be buyers of that data already

Yes, they are: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...

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

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Post by criddell »

kevindeasis wrote: post #49

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

You want to run all your purchases through a system run by an advertising company? There's no way I would do that.

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

#55

Post by maxwell »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #51
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.

Brynn Bardacke (Google Pay Senior Director) stated publicly that: 1) Google Pay will never sell your information. 2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties 3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads. Source: https://youtu.be/A2hL32k7Y0I?t=934

You still trust Google?

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

#56

Post by ceejayoz »

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…

Same here. I can’t transition my Nest to my Google accounts for the same reason.

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

#57

Post by [deleted] »

thanhhaimai wrote: post #51
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.

Brynn Bardacke (Google Pay Senior Director) stated publicly that: 1) Google Pay will never sell your information. 2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties 3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads. Source: https://youtu.be/A2hL32k7Y0I?t=934

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

#58

Post by haxney »

stochastician wrote: post #48
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.

(Googler here, opinions are my own)

People do rage internally about this. Unsurprisingly, a lot of current Google employees were early adopters of new Google features.

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

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Post by thanhhaimai »

maxwell wrote: post #55
thanhhaimai wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Brynn Bardacke (Google Pay Senior Director) stated publicly that: 1) Google Pay will never sell your information. 2) Specifically, Google Pay will never sell your transaction history to third parties 3) Or share it with the rest of Google for targeting ads. Source: https://youtu.be/A2hL32k7Y0I?t=934

You still trust Google?

I'm just providing facts, with source. The above post contains no opinion.

I'm not sure why you assume anything about my trust with Google?

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

#60

Post by giancarlostoro »

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.

After watching them create so many services and cancel them (including my Google Pay card) I've bought an iPhone and this sort of integration exists already built-in and I don't feel like I'm having my transactions creeped on. There's a bunch of other reasons why I've ditched Google but since we're discussing this, this is one of the main ones. I am likely going to ditch my gmail for iCloud as well.
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