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4d ago

Google Play just opened Pandora's box: You can now bug your friends to pay for you

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Google Play just opened Pandora's box: You can now bug your friends to pay for you

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.

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Oh FFS.
WHY?!
Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?
- They get extra revenue from sales. If they're scams, well that's okay too, as long as they get a cut.
  
  They're not scams, they're surprise purchases

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

My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.
- My friends can't bug me even if they want because I don't have a Google account 😀
  
  Yas queen, way to go
- You can go next step, not have Google Play on your phone

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

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.
- That is answered in the second paragraph
  
  Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.
- 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
  
  No idea really, I'm not Indian.

Ha! Jokes on you google, I don't have any friends......
- Don't worry, soon you'll have a lot! All asking you to pay for something!
  
  Hahahah good luck with that, I'm poor as fuck.

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

Aurora Store.

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