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.
22 Comments
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 31 pts · 1y
Oh FFS.
WHY?!
Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?
Ulrich@feddit.org · 14 pts · 1y
They get extra revenue from sales. If they're scams, well that's okay too, as long as they get a cut.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 1y
They're not scams, they're surprise purchases
babyincubi@beehaw.org · 19 pts · 1y
Sending requests to all of my contacts to pay for my slutty skins microtransactions as soon as this releases globally 💋
MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan · 16 pts · 1y
My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.
Ulrich@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
My friends can't bug me even if they want because I don't have a Google account 😀
dumbass@leminal.space · 8 pts · 1y
Ha! Jokes on you google, I don't have any friends......
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
Don't worry, soon you'll have a lot! All asking you to pay for something!
dumbass@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y
Hahahah good luck with that, I'm poor as fuck.
Ulrich@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
It's not about the money, it's about the wonderful experience of hundreds of payment requests from random users.
dumbass@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
Can I reply back?
themurphy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Only with money, so no I guess. :(
dumbass@leminal.space · 2 pts · 1y
That's probably a good thing, I'd be calling them all poor cunts every time they requested money.
spwyll@lemdro.id · 2 pts · 1y
Ha! Speaking as a poor cunt myself, I do not see the problem with that...
viking@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y
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.
tja@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
That is answered in the second paragraph
viking@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 1y
Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.
otter@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
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
viking@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
No idea really, I'm not Indian.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
well this will bring about a whole new level of school bullying
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org · 6 pts · 1y
I'm going to spam requests to Tim Apple & Elongated Musk
Turret3857@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y
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