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[gemelen]

Google at its finest way of breaking things that were working previously: before last Friday, 22nd of July, outside the US there was one payment processing service from Google - Google Pay. It was introduced in 2018 as a merge between two different services, but that's another story.

Since then it was good enough to widespread, first of all because it worked. Add a card and pay everywhere, both online and offline (contactless via any NFC-enabled device).

Last Friday the new (to the global audience) application was released - Google Wallet. It's just a reincarnation of old wallet app from Google, but again, it doesn't matter for now. And from there thigs get hairy.

Your bank or another service like Wise (which I use because ... war) allows you to add a card from them to the Google payments app. Since Friday this adds your card to Google Wallet, but not Google Pay, what a surprise! An attempt to add a Wise card to Google Pay ends with an error, so you don't have an online part of being able to pay with it. And, I guess, contactless pay via Google Wallet is broken too (will check later on).

Why? Because fuck you, that's why. This is a Google motto, so shut up and suffer on your own.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Sure. That's their culture. That's why their social networks fail. They know better. It took me a month or two, in orkut team, to convince our pms that friending can't be symmetric by default. (There view was that if someone friends you, they can immediately see your private pics.) This fight cost me some google karma points... well, whatever. You know how it is.

[gemelen]

It's frustrating, and sad, because so much around the world depends on Google.