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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      My friends can’t bug me even if they want because I don’t have a Google account 😀

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    8 months ago

    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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        8 months ago

        Indeed. I must have overlooked it, I actually read articles.

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      8 months ago

      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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        8 months ago

        No idea really, I’m not Indian.