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TL;DR

  • Google is expanding its β€œAsk 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.
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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh FFS.

WHY?!

Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago

They're not scams, they're surprise purchases

[–] babyincubi@beehaw.org 28 points 1 week ago

Sending requests to all of my contacts to pay for my slutty skins microtransactions as soon as this releases globally πŸ’‹

[–] MuAraeOracle@real.lemmy.fan 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My friends can't bug me even if they want because I don't have a Google account πŸ˜€

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Yas queen, way to go

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

You can go next step, not have Google Play on your phone

[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is answered in the second paragraph

[–] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 1 week ago

Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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 points 1 week ago

No idea really, I'm not Indian.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

well this will bring about a whole new level of school bullying

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ha! Jokes on you google, I don't have any friends......

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, soon you'll have a lot! All asking you to pay for something!

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahahah good luck with that, I'm poor as fuck.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not about the money, it's about the wonderful experience of hundreds of payment requests from random users.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only with money, so no I guess. :(

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's probably a good thing, I'd be calling them all poor cunts every time they requested money.

[–] spwyll 2 points 6 days ago

Ha! Speaking as a poor cunt myself, I do not see the problem with that...

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago

I'm going to spam requests to Tim Apple & Elongated Musk

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Aurora Store.