Google Pay
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
9warn against
Nov 19, 2025first mention
Aug 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use Google/Android Pay (or whatever it's called now) for NFC payments and have since 2018”
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“I use Google Pay for basically everything.”
Caveats and dissent
“Google Pay will likely continue banning using GrapheneOS for the foreseeable future”
“switched to Google Pay which does require Play Integrity”
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“Google Pay requires the OS to be specifically whitelisted by Google.”
“getting Google Pay can apparently be a challenge”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal 1 mention
- GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones 1 mention
- A big win for Android interoperability 1 mention
- Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now 1 mention
- GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17 and official releases are coming soon 1 mention
- Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers 1 mention
Data: google-pay.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 17
“PayPal is the payment method I use for Google Pay”
“Google Pay will likely continue banning using GrapheneOS for the foreseeable future”
“I use Google/Android Pay (or whatever it's called now) for NFC payments and have since 2018”
“any of their products other than google pay, maps and youtube music”
“instead of Google Pay I use my bank's app for contactless payments”
“Google Pay works for a limited amount of uses in offline mode.”
“switched to Google Pay which does require Play Integrity”
“Google Pay requires the OS to be specifically whitelisted by Google.”
“getting Google Pay can apparently be a challenge”
“I have all my credit cards in GPay”
I'd also recommend to slowly migrate to GrapheneOS, getting to know where the boundaries are for specific apps. Once you've got your 'dailies' all up and running predictably, then you're good to go, but it could take a few days depending on how much spare time you have to find said boundaries. Having said that, I turn on most of the higher level security protections, which quite a few apps need exceptions from. But,
“the payment processors (paypal, apple pay, google pay) are all making money on their obscene 1%+ processing markups”
“I use Google Pay for basically everything.”
“Google Pay cares, and I don't use it thus”
“So add another layer of duopoly and middlemen to the way I pay for things.”
“Google Pay will certainly run on my Lineage OnePlus 5”
“is easily mistaken to mean "save to my interested list"”