Please remember that it is a free service and like with most free stuff you still pay, just not with money. What they earn is your financial information - every transaction you do is logged and used to better target actions toward you.

Ultimately you get convenience and they get an angle to better work you in the future. The stuff you buy, the causes you support, etc., all is recorded and analysed to better understand how to drive you to spend more on shit you don't want in the first place.

I think that moving away from Google wallet is a good decision but getting into the same abusive relationship with another company is not.

[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Even the products you pay for make you the product and it's been true for awhile and it just keeps getting worse...

That old saying isn't true anymore... Maybe never was