Google Play just opened Pandora's box: You can now bug your friends to pay for you
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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.
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.
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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.
Oh FFS.
WHY?!
Do they want more scams? Do they get extra revenue and engagement from scams?
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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.
Sending requests to all of my contacts to pay for my slutty skins microtransactions as soon as this releases globally
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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
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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.
I'm going to spam requests to Tim Apple & Elongated Musk
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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.
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
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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.
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That is answered in the second paragraph
Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.
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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!
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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.
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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.
My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.
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My friends can bug me all they want as I have disabled notifications.
You can go next step, not have Google Play on your phone
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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.
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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
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Hahahah good luck with that, I'm poor as fuck.
It's not about the money, it's about the wonderful experience of hundreds of payment requests from random users.
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It's not about the money, it's about the wonderful experience of hundreds of payment requests from random users.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Can I reply back?
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Can I reply back?
Only with money, so no I guess.
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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.
Aurora Store.
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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
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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.
well this will bring about a whole new level of school bullying
