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First, there was google wallet, then came android pay, then google wallet and android pay got merged into google pay, then google pay was split into google wallet and google pay, then google pay shut down in us.
To be continued…
Next: Google Android Wallet Pay
… And now it’s dead too.
Will it come with its own proprietary chat?
It’s almost as if, and bear with me here this is a truly wild concept, letting every manager run their own little show and paying them based on how many new products they introduce isn’t actually healthy.
Are you sure that you’re not thinking of Duo/meet/Hangout?
Don’t put hangout in the same breath as duo and meet. It was way better than those “two”
So true. I should have said “Allo”, but I’d forgotten it existed.
I have Google Fi and it was fantastic to have that work using Hangouts. I could turn any device into a spare phone. The “replacement” website feature is disappointing.
More like: To be confused…
This sounds like someone trying to describe the women’s legs of that video of OpenAI’s Sora … Tokyo Walk.
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Random as hell.
What is with google and all these apps that get killed or rebranded very abruptly?
So I’ve heard advancement at Google/Alphabet depends on launching new products, not improving existing ones. Which means a lot of continually reinventing the wheel, because crafting truly novel new platforms is actually quite hard.
This is the answer. Rising stars get promo, then abandon it. Google under Sundar is just a corporate advancement simulator.
Money, it is all about money.
It’s about lack of coherent leadership.
I was irked about Google podcasts but that made sense since they were obviously trying to push YouTube subscriptions. This I’m not sure.
Now they will have youtube pay
Or just You Pay
I think most people hated this app though?
FFS I literally use this all the fuckin time
God fuckin damnit Google
What’s next, are you going to kill Gmail‽
How long until they change 8.8.8.8 and break half the internet
I’m just waiting for them to figure out how to inject ads into DNS.
I think they could 🤔
It would be trivially easy.
Request for www.taylorswift.com
Return IP to client for a dynamically created temporary web page that shows a Ticketmaster.com ad with a countdown of 10 seconds and javascript redirect to the actual taylorswift.com IP
But, HTTPS certificates.
Unless they provided overrides for their ads in Chrome, but at that point why do it with DNS.Google is way ahead of you, they are a certificate authority now, so in theory they can do this right now. Take a look at any site’s https certificate and a significant portion of them are now signed by Google Trust Services LLC thanks to Cloudflare using them to generate free https certificates (in addition to letsencrypt). Note that they won’t ever pull this trick though because it’ll irreversibly damage their reputation.
I think they wouldn’t do that, since they could do the redirect within Chrome itself. The only reason they would do this is to grab users on other browsers, but that would mean everyone else stopping to use Google DNS, which means less data to collect or sell.
The only reason they would do this is to grab users on other browsers,
Yes that would be the purpose.
but that would mean everyone else stopping to use Google DNS, which means less data to collect or sell.
I agree, which is why I also agree with you why they haven’t done it yet, but I was speaking to how they could do it, not the fallout from them doing so.
It’s too big to fail now. Advertisers hardcode it into their apps and iot devices to evade DNS adblockers for a while now.
Joke’s on them, I block Google DNS in my router, and a bunch of DoH servers (fuck I hate DoH).
DoH and DoT, originally developed to prevent ISP to tamper with DNS query to inject ads, now ironically used by advertisers to evade DNS-based blocking on their ads sdk and iot devices.
Can we just sunset google altogether
don’t forget alphabet, otherwise they just sunset google to launch gogol or some shit
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Did you not hear?
NGL you had me for a moment
Don’t be a dumbass spreading blatant hoaxes thinking you’re funny.
Come on, it is funny.
Where is the joke?
You’re still using gmail
This would give me a straight up heart attack and I’m already trying to get off Gmail.
Isn’t google wallet basically the same thing?
Yes, and it works better. They said over a year ago that wallet would replace GPay, and remind you that it will stop working basically anytime you open it. I’m all for shitting on Google but being upset over this is dumb.
Why don’t they upgrade the original product rather than create a new one? Answer: fucking laziness
Ironically enough, they actually are going back to the old product, it WAS Google wallet prior to gpay
But isn’t wallet only for tap to pay? I use Google pay to send and receive money between my friends and family literally all the time. Reading the email Google sent me, they only talk about tap to pay still working on wallet.
Idk I’ve never used it for anything other than tap to pay, and that was also true for gpay. I personally would recommend you use something that doesn’t farm your data for transferring money anyway. Zelle is what most people prefer these days, usually goes straight through your bank, no separate app, not invasive, more secure.
Venmo and cash app are trash (especially Venmo) but they are alternatives that work for sending money and have been around way longer than GPay. I still use Venmo for a few things for my parents and father in law.
GPay had tons of bloat to it which I didn’t like. I don’t want Google tracking my spending and tailoring “offers” for me, and I definitely don’t want them sending me notifications about it. I’m not delusional, I know they’re still tracking it and still sending it to advertisers but at least wallet isn’t shoving my face in it.
I have 8 bucks in Google Kajigger, is it moving to the new thing? Do I have to sort out how to move it around? I’m think I had it all hooked up to a bank at one point. Maybe it was a friend that sent me money?
I think I used it to pay for Dunkin Donuts, but both apps list Dunkin Donuts, can I just use the money there?
That’s why this is all so annoying, I have to figure out this whole process, old and new, just for 8 bucks.
That’s all well and good and fair, but this isn’t new news is more my point. Google told everyone, every device, that they were switching to wallet and phasing out GPay over a year ago, in fact I’m almost positive it was when Android 13 released (we are on 14 now). Like the annoyance should’ve passed by now, you know?
Relax dippy. Just a rebrand to Google Wallet. Try to breath for a minute before sounding brain dead.
Literally the only feature I use on it is getting sunset.
Use your bank. Stop giving the world’s largest advertising company more data about you.
US citizens using their bank account to transfer fund to each other [impossible]
This is because sharing bank account and routing number is not safe for many US banks which may allow unauthorized party to pull money from the account. Banks in the rest of the world typically operate in “push” only so they don’t have this issue.
I still use a payment system called “cash”.
It may not be cool or trendy, but the system has never had a server outage or network failure.
I still use a payment system called “cash”.
I can’t find that app in the play store? Where can I download it?
Have you ever seen a check?
Which contains your account number and routing number, which allows the recipient’s bank to “pull” funds from your bank account.
Aww how cute, thinking Google doesn’t buy that data from the bank anyway…
Yes, give your data to the bank where they will spend it on drugs.
Does your bank use Plaid?
Out of curiosity, what’s the benefit of Google Pay for you over Venmo or Zelle?
At the time I started using Google Pay, existing and being from a company I had heard of. Not to mention on Android it was just there for you to use, you didn’t have to download another app.
My roommate and I considered using PayPal but his PayPal account got locked and to this day a decade later, never unlocked.
I’m going to be looking into both Venmo and Zelle now though.
what’s the benefit of Google Pay for you over Venmo or Zelle?
It works internationally.
Those other 2 are USA only
Those other two are so frequently used for scams that my bank has a heart attack every time I try to use them. No matter how many times I call them and tell them to unblock my card, because it was definitely me sending that money, they’ll block it the very next time. I literally bought a checkbook (you have to buy those dumb things now?!) so I could more easily give people money… In 2023…
Google pay worked for me reasonably well for small transactions between friends and family. That’s literally what I use it for 90% of the time. I’m super annoyed that they don’t have a replacement for it.
Google strikes again, killing something I love.
Samsung Pay is pretty good if you have a Samsung phone.
Unfortunately I don’t have a Samsung phone
Fortunately, I don’t have a Samsung phone.
Introducing: Google Pay Meet
Google-Wave your Google-Pay-Meet device over the Google-Reader and we’ll Google-Optimize your purchase so you can get back to Google-Hangouting with your friends faster than you can say “watch Google Play Movies & TV on Android Auto for phone screens”
watch Google Play Movies & TV on Android Auto
Android Auto, not to be confused with Android Automotive
“Overview of Android Automotive vs Android Auto Android Auto is connecting smartphones with the infotainment system via an app installed on the infotainment system, whereas Android Automotive OS is an operating system that’s installed on the vehicle itself, acting as the key enabler for software-defined vehicles.” source
“Android auto for phone screens” is another product they killed: https://www.androidpolice.com/google-kills-android-auto-for-phone-screens/
MAKE IT STOP
This name is reserved for their upcoming hooker service
That’s a little clickbaitey they’re just moving the rest of pay into wallet.
Thank you.
And killing services like sending and receiving payments from friends and family. This is so frustrating, because I remember they made me switch FROM wallet to Google pay and now they’re going back. Google, I’m all for not tying yourself to all your previous decisions, but at some point you’ve got to stand your ground on SOMETHING.
Introducing Google Pay-I.
Revolutionary AI learns from your habits and personality to make payments on your behalf! It will buy things you didn’t even know you needed!
I would probably try an AI version of the XKCD packages script
That’s really clever, you finally got me to dislodge this turd. Thank you!
That is an important part of the plot in the german book Qualityland. Really hilarious
Next week, they’ll announce “Google Money”
“YouTube Money”. Get it right.
Google Play Pay
Google Bank
Google River (both banks)
Google Marketing Dept: You’re hired!!!
This is actually very witty…
Thanks, I spent about an hour thinking of a good enough joke for this.
I would love a Google purse 👛
Google Wallet came out a while ago apparently, they are just condescending Google Pay into Google Wallet. Not sure what the differences are.
Does this company have some kind of multiple personality disorder
Some of its personalities do while others don’t. It’s… complicated.
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Play it backwards and it says: “Start to smoke Marijuana”
Coincidence?
Ed: for the disbelievers https://youtu.be/TvhCThWWy3Q
And it’s clearly intentional - he pronounces ‘another one’ with an M to make it work
Every company renaming their products:
mv -i oldname newname
Google renaming their products:cp oldname newname ; sleep 5 ; rm -f oldnameWith Google it’s usually just
rm nameOr “mv name dev/null”
Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn’t it rebranded to Wallet?
In true Google fashion, they remade the same product, gave it a new name, and made it compete with the existing one.
a manager needed their promotion
Just FYI, it was wallet originally, moved to “pay” then both existed for way too long with not really knowing which did what
Now we’re back to wallet.
🤦♂️
Google drank so much capitalist koolaid they thought the company needed internal competition when the main reason they remain so big is because they have big chunks of monopoly power in several key tech fields
Not the same, you can’t pay friends directly with wallet. The core function that I use weekly is being gutted with no replacement.
Just use zelle it’s built into your bank app
Yeah I saw this news today and literally don’t even understand how it affects me. I don’t know what the difference is between Wallet and Pay.
You can pay friends with Pay. You can’t do that with Wallet.
Was Google Pay US-exclusive?
The fun part is you still can’t transfer out less than $1. I had 81¢. So I tried to transfer in 19¢ so I could transfer a whole $1 out.
Nope, can’t transfer in less than $10.
I was able to transfer in $10 so I can get my $10.81 out. But fuck, Google, if you’re the one shutting shit down, how about you let me transfer my money out regardless of how much/little there is?
You have money on Google? Where I am it just a payment service linked to your card.
I think at some point someone paid me and I just never cashed it out. I think it was the default payment method for Google Play, so app subscriptions and whatnot just got charged against it until there was almost nothing left.
Might wanna check your math there…
Oof. Big dumb. Thanks!
Instead of Alphabet, they should’ve called the company Undertakers, because they’ve got a lot of experience dealing with dead apps and services.
Kind of glad I never bothered to figure it out
Same.
I never really trusted it to continue existing.
Especially not with Google. They have a habit of killing things.
Just Google things. ™
