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Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :| Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to

Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :| Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this.

ineedasername 5y ago
Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this. 1980's cyberpunk writers
cutler 5y ago
This is M$ we're talking about. Are you really surprised?
- afavour 5y ago
  This is capitalism we’re talking about.
- skinkestek 5y ago
  Haven't written MS that way for a while but it starts to feel like it is time for it again.
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  The overused acronym aside, MS does seem to seriously have issues building quality software because they lack focus. They always seem to get hijacked by forces in their own organisation dragging them off-track. Like totally screwing up Windows 8 because some part of the company wanted to sell more tablets. Ruining Teams by adding so much functionality to it without a clear vision that it's become a slow and confusing mess. Now this, undermining the push for a clean and fast browser with what is probably just one VP pushing this to make a quick monetary win for his team. This is one thing where Apple under Steve Jobs would shine. The company had one direction, one that was sometimes not what everyone wanted but once it was set it would not let itself be dragged off-track.
cyanydeez 5y ago
anyone paying attention.?
- Spivak 5y ago
  I don't think this have been downvoted, this is a really really obvious thing to do with the raging success of both Apple Pay/Shop Pay/Android Pay/Samsung Pay/Paypal and Afterpay and it's clones. From the financial perspective of the big three companies that make browsers they're nothing more than shopping portals and all new user-facing features built into browsers support the user-stories of people buying things. Paypal & Shop Pay have the problem of getting people to let them store their CC info to upsell them on afterpay type stuff and CC offers -- browsers and $Platform Pay already have it so MS is bootstrapping their $Pay service via the thing they can control.
  - tomjen3 5y ago
    But the reason I use Apple Pay and Google Pay before that is that it is more convenient and I can avoid touching the PIN Pad. I pay in full immediately.
  - cyanydeez 5y ago
    ive been readying about microtransactions for decades. this is basically what thta is.
behnamoh 5y ago
>> Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :| The dark humor is that some of the developers responsible for today's horrible web experience are here on HN...
- zmix 5y ago
  ...and well understood the horrors of a Cyberpunk like dystopia in time.
cpeterso 5y ago
Opera started offering payday loans in Kenya a few years ago: https://allafrica.com/stories/202104090297.html https://allafrica.com/stories/202104090297.html
throwoutway 5y ago
Just wait for what’s in store in 2022!

Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :| Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this.

ineedasername 5y ago

Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this. 1980's cyberpunk writers

cutler 5y ago

This is M$ we're talking about. Are you really surprised?

afavour 5y ago
This is capitalism we’re talking about.
skinkestek 5y ago
Haven't written MS that way for a while but it starts to feel like it is time for it again.
GekkePrutser 5y ago
The overused acronym aside, MS does seem to seriously have issues building quality software because they lack focus. They always seem to get hijacked by forces in their own organisation dragging them off-track. Like totally screwing up Windows 8 because some part of the company wanted to sell more tablets. Ruining Teams by adding so much functionality to it without a clear vision that it's become a slow and confusing mess. Now this, undermining the push for a clean and fast browser with what is probably just one VP pushing this to make a quick monetary win for his team. This is one thing where Apple under Steve Jobs would shine. The company had one direction, one that was sometimes not what everyone wanted but once it was set it would not let itself be dragged off-track.

cyanydeez 5y ago

anyone paying attention.?

Spivak 5y ago
I don't think this have been downvoted, this is a really really obvious thing to do with the raging success of both Apple Pay/Shop Pay/Android Pay/Samsung Pay/Paypal and Afterpay and it's clones. From the financial perspective of the big three companies that make browsers they're nothing more than shopping portals and all new user-facing features built into browsers support the user-stories of people buying things. Paypal & Shop Pay have the problem of getting people to let them store their CC info to upsell them on afterpay type stuff and CC offers -- browsers and $Platform Pay already have it so MS is bootstrapping their $Pay service via the thing they can control.
- tomjen3 5y ago
  But the reason I use Apple Pay and Google Pay before that is that it is more convenient and I can avoid touching the PIN Pad. I pay in full immediately.
- cyanydeez 5y ago
  ive been readying about microtransactions for decades. this is basically what thta is.

behnamoh 5y ago

>> Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :| The dark humor is that some of the developers responsible for today's horrible web experience are here on HN...

zmix 5y ago
...and well understood the horrors of a Cyberpunk like dystopia in time.

cpeterso 5y ago

Opera started offering payday loans in Kenya a few years ago: https://allafrica.com/stories/202104090297.html https://allafrica.com/stories/202104090297.html

throwoutway 5y ago

Just wait for what’s in store in 2022!