Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Facebook Pay Introduces Personalized QR Codes for Person-to-Person Payments

I‘d rather hire a German Shepard to keep an eye on my Bratwurst than trusting Facebook with anything.

Know what? Scratch that! I fully trust Facebook is going to sell any transaction info to anyone interested.

How on earth did Facebook decide it might be a good idea to enter a market that predominantly relies on trust and confidentiality? Have they lost their collective minds? Of all people - Facebook? Unbelieveable. Simply unbelieveable....

They must have totally lost ground contact...
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: seek3r
msp3 said:
Let's be clear: Any QR code-based payment system is low-quality, backwards, and hostile to the user. The only reason anyone would try to push this is an end run around the features that make Apple Pay (and its equivalents) safe, secure, and trusted all over the world.

The scam of course, is for the vender to reach directly into the customer's bank account where they are not protected by credit card issuers and network standards. This has been an unfulfilled wet dream for dishonest merchants for decades now and they're pushing harder than ever.
Click to expand...

OTOH, the US has some of the highest interchange fees in the world (and also the lowest adoption of Apple Pay by users/merchants)--the latter only increasing thanks to the pandemic. I'm not surprised a significant chunk of merchants want to cut Visa and MC out of the picture altogether. Facebook, however, is the last company I'd trust with that sort of thing for the reasons others have already mentioned.

(BTW, WeChat/Alipay interchange in China is IIRC capped at ~0.3% much like how Visa and MC are capped in Europe. The former two also grew extremely quickly to become the most used payment methods in China, not to mention the growth of contactless in general in Europe. I wonder sometimes how different Apple Pay's rollout would have gone here had interchange been capped or otherwise significantly reduced. Of course, there were other factors involved too.)
 
cmaier said:
Your point makes no sense. If Apple had an exploit two years ago that meant that millions of users had their personal information stolen and posted on the web, then it would be perfectly natural and rational to not trust them with your personal information two years later, whether they patched it or not.
Click to expand...

So if Safari has a bug which leaked info 2 years ago, and Apple patched it.
then you should not trust Safari today?
Using this logic, everyone would sit at home using and trusting no-one.
Unless you are able to find a company that never once had made any mistake or none of it's software and/or services has never had a single bug. Which of course we all know it impossible.
It does not matter what happened in the past it's what happens today and into the future that's important.
That's a bit like saying Don't buy anything from Germany or China as in the past we used to be enemies and killed each other.
What's important is, today and beyond. Not the past.
 
Piggie said:
So if Safari has a bug which leaked info 2 years ago, and Apple patched it.
then you should not trust Safari today?
Using this logic, everyone would sit at home using and trusting no-one.
Unless you are able to find a company that never once had made any mistake or none of it's software and/or services has never had a single bug. Which of course we all know it impossible.
It does not matter what happened in the past it's what happens today and into the future that's important.
That's a bit like saying Don't buy anything from Germany or China as in the past we used to be enemies and killed each other.
What's important is, today and beyond. Not the past.
Click to expand...
This is the strawman-iest logic I’ve seen on the internet in a long time. First, how can a web browser “leak info?”

Second, yes, if Safari had a bug 2 years ago that took my name, email address, phone number, physical address, and other personal information and made it available openly on the internet, I would not trust it today. And it would be perfectly rational not to, and only an idiot would keep using a web browser that did that.

”It does not matter what happened in the past?” Taking note of things that happen in the past is exactly how we learn. If you ignore the past you learn nothing.

And, yes, I won’t buy a Volkswagen because they were complicit in the killing of most of my family.

And the most bewildering part of your argument is that you say that something that happened TWO years ago is ”a bit like” what happened EIGHTY years ago in Germany. (Also wondering when, precisely, you think we used to be enemies with China and killed each other?)
 
Last edited:
cmaier said:
And the most bewildering part of your argument is that you say that something that happened TWO years ago is ”a bit like” what happened EIGHTY years ago in Germany. (Also wondering when, precisely, you think we used to be enemies with China and killed each other?)
Click to expand...

So sad that you have no idea about your own countries recent history where 36,000 of your own countrymen died :(

"In November 1950, China and the United States went to war. Thirty-six thousand Americans died, along with upwards of a quarter million Chinese, and half a million or more Koreans"

nationalinterest.org

China and America’s Proxy War Over Korea Never Ended

Here’s What You Need to Remember: There was nothing good about the last Sino-American War, not even the “peace” that resulted from it. The experience of this war, now nearly forgotten on both sides, should serve as a grim lesson for policy makers in both Washington and Beijing. In November 1950...
nationalinterest.org nationalinterest.org

:(
 
tranceking26 said:
Great timing. Who on earth would trust them after what happened?

Even the usually uninformed must have heard about the data leak by now.
Click to expand...
The data leak is actually not the problem. For this was unintentional.

The real problem is that Facebook has no intention to keep your data safe in the first place. In fact, their business is based on selling data, data acquired directly and indirectly.
One can be sure they won‘t keep data private, because that is what they do.
 
unclemax said:
I don't trust Facebook so let me give my account information and transactions history to the friends over at CCP 😂
Click to expand...
I see what your saying... I however trust CCP a bit more than I trust our government here in the USA.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back