Amazon stellt umstrittene Zahlungsmethode ein
https://www.al.com/business/2026/01/amazon-shuts-down-payment-method.html
Amazon stellt umstrittene Zahlungsmethode ein
https://www.al.com/business/2026/01/amazon-shuts-down-payment-method.html
15 Kommentare
The creepy factor was off the charts on that one.
Palm scanning? Hmm
Evil company
Controversial as in no one was fucking willing to use their damn hand to pay for shit from a god damn evil corporation!
It was a fell to begin with. Amazon one machines always broke down and we always needed to be replaced. Customers could not scan their palms. Just like a lot of things Amazon is wiping out a lot of self checkouts stores. It’s a beginning of the end. Amazon does not know how to make grocery stores work.
Obvious backdoor research for a potential product to sell to DOD. Not surprising that people wouldn’t want to freely give up biometric data for minimal convenience. I feel like the current administration made this even less likely so they decided to mercy kill it.
they have (*had* now, I guess) this at a Hudson in my local airport and I thought it was Amazon Go at first, which I’ve used before. but when I went to tap in and saw it was a different thing that required a palm print I noped right out. I’m pretty loose with trading my privacy for convenience, but this was a bridge too far for even me.
How easy would it be to copy someone else’s hand and pay with it?
I got it like 4-5 years ago and it seemed fine. Got to like it at Whole Foods. Made payment real easy. Had the payment method as a Chase Amazon card, so it made it all easy to get 5% back. It’s sad it’s going away. Back to old card tap.
Amazon was once that company that was trying to do everything andhad all these different projects. Now slowly they’re dismantling each and every one of them. It started off with that weird story about the Indian workers actually being the one monitoring your grab and go items.
And then there was that one weird fashion assistant thing.
(Actual start of downfall was the fire phone)
Whoever willfully opted into this is a complete idiot.
Never ever worked for me. I tried it repeatedly when at Whole Foods
The ones at the WFs near me are always dusty
I used it, it was just so convenient, dont even need to carry a phone.
But now i need a phone to unlock anything, so i guess its ok
I used to go to Whole Foods before Bezos went full Trump and I never saw a single person use those things.