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The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 9 months ago by catculation to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Use your bank. Stop giving the world’s largest advertising company more data about you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I still use a payment system called “cash”.

I can't find that app in the play store? Where can I download it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen a check?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Which contains your account number and routing number, which allows the recipient's bank to "pull" funds from your bank account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, give your data to the bank where they will spend it on drugs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Does your bank use Plaid?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Aww how cute, thinking Google doesn't buy that data from the bank anyway...