cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15358017
Google Pay alternative?
Hey there, I’m looking for an alternative to Google pay that’ll allow me to use NFC payments etc. Thoughts?
The open-source solution is affixing your credit card (or an “additional cardholder” card) to the back of your phone.
Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay are the ones I know of. My bank’s app used to be able to do mobile payments but they stopped unfortunately. Banks bristle at the fact there could be open source solutions to anything in the financial sector, it could take away from their upcharging and parasitism.
Security-wise that is significantly worse. Google Pay generates a random card number per transaction and isn’t active when the phone is locked.
I keep my credit cards in an NFC blocking sleeves because the passive NFC can’t be turned off. Someone could literally bump into you and cause a transaction.
Correct, but unfortunately I’ve found myself less likely to lose my phone than my separate wallet 🤦
Bummer. Maybe there will be more options when Android 15 launches, it is adding the option to choose the default wallet app.
Oh cool, didn’t realize USD has NFC support!
Enough USD can support anything. And for privacy all that phone app stuff doesn’t come close. Why degoogle just to throw yourself into yet another spyware app? Anyway the obvious competitor is Apple. Or you could use an ordinary credit card instead of a phone.
It seems like the question is ’ can I use NFC without being tied to a major network?'.
Why bash that? Seems like a legitimate question to me.
I think the answer is you can’t, with caveats, some prepaid cards might allow it, but you may not be able to do it on your phone.
I haven’t had a bank account or credit card in a decade, so I’m with you on paying in cash. I also realize that doesn’t work for most people.
Just smell on it and the cocaine goes into your blood
Is it good shit or what
Its better than crypto or corpo-crypto (“wireless transfer”)
Cash
Neat.
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Why?
It’s a serious question. What features are you missing, what do you dislike, etc.
Otherwise the answer might easily be: search for “NFC payment” in Google Play and that’s not helpful.
Some number of apps are using pay for more than NFC payment, for ex some ticketing applications from concert organizers don’t seem to offer an alternative to use of pay. I was also hoping for support of NFC payment somehow, but had low hopes because I expect there’s PCI compliance or whatever.
Because I don’t know the backend of the compliance process etc, not an I particularly interested in researching that, figured I’d ask in this community and find at least a couple of knowledgeable answers.
People would like alternative to google snooping in on all their data.
That’s understandable, perhaps even desirable, but OP didn’t include that in their requirements.
There are card providers like Curve who let you add multiple bank, credit, and store cards to one card, and select which one you want to use through an app. I don’t know whether you can use them through your phone separately though, as I only ever tried it through the Google Pay system.
Curve changed their terms a few years ago so that you can only have one payment card without paying a monthly fee though, so I haven’t used them for a while. On top of that, changing the selected card through the app was too slow for when I was in a queue and wanted to use a store card and then a payment card.
Ok, thanks very much for this, I’ll look into this app.
I’ll go on the record acknowledging that inevitably someone is selling my records and habits, but key is knowing the data is siloed across a few different brokers. If someone wants my info, I have to hope adding a bit of a paywall across it will help a bit.
With the Linux phone you gotta use your wallet more including tapping to pay with the credit cards
