Google Pay and the useless error message
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I was buying something online, using Firefox on my desktop. When I got to the checkout page, I thought I’d use the ‘Checkout with GPay’ button.
Except, when I clicked on it, I got this message:
![An error message saying ‘To make this purchase using Google Pay, open this website in a browser app, such as Chrome or Safari. [OR_BIBED_15] OR_BIBED_15’](/_astro/Screenshot-2024-09-01-at-13-34-30-Google-Pay-cropped.D5dnmBWL_Z2oQt9K.webp)
Eh? I am in a browser. The message doesn’t mean I need on a mobile, because the same thing works in desktop Chrome or Edge (activating some weird modal dialogue on top of the page).
There isn’t even a link to go back to the retailer’s site so that I can try a different payment method.
(Even more confusingly, the Google Pay documentation
suggests that error OR_BIBED_15 has a cause unrelated to the error message.)
Well, that’s a button I won’t bother clicking on again.
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