Google Is Scrapping Its Plan to Offer Bank Accounts to Users

AMZ already does "helpful" things like recommend pants extenders when you buy a size down then a size up.

I'd hate to see what they recommend based on prescriptions, especially since many medications have wildly different use cases. If AMZ filled my prescriptions, they'd assume I'm an asthmatic with hives, neither of which are true.

The cavalier way they treat their supply chains gives me absolutely no confidence that they will treat prescriptions with the proper respect.

Others have given equally persuasive reasons, but for me, it's simply that it's too easy for Amazon to give away vast amounts of data on me, and why should I give them even more of it?

Secondly, the thought of one multi-trillion dollar company owning the entire economy is repulsive. Let some other players in the game, too. I'd rather break them up than make them even bigger.

Good luck getting to speak to a human at Google. And when you do find one, they'll tell you they can't overturn the dumbass AI.

>People get locked out of their financial accounts all the time and despite persistent rumors to the contrary, it is way more likely that your bank or credit network is using a blackbox AI to do it, with a shit vendor like Feedzai.

That's not being locked out of your account. You weren't able to charge but, should you have had the need, you would have been able to log in to your Visa account online to diagnose the issue. You would have also been able to dial a number or email for support. With Google, you are indeed locked out of your account and every other account you authenticated with using your Google account. There is no phone number or email address. There is no support. The scenario you bring up pales in comparison to Google's behavior.

This is in no way similar to the account lockout behavior being discussed in the Google context, where Google is making irreversible decisions that you have little to no input or insight into.