I tried. The power-grabbing garbage was immediately apparent and sent me straight for "heck no, I'll just use passwords until they figure this out, at least that can't control my password manager".

In principle I should be very in favor of them, but the wild variety of lack of support for basics, and the built-in-the-spec ability for site X to control how I store and sync stuff is utterly bonkers. It's feeling like the OpenID promise -> OAuth platform lock-in cycle all over again, but compressed into v1.

Google loves that nonsense, don't they? It's as though they think so highly of themselves that they cannot imagine they might not be strictly doing us all a favor by signing us up for their services.

Fifteen years later, I still have friends occasionally sending messages to a GMail address I never asked for, never used, and didn't even know about for most of a year while it was virally spreading through people's address books, silently diverting mail away from my actual address. The only time I used this account, after I discovered that it existed, was to delete it - but GMail apparently still suggests it when people type my name, because I get an "oops, sent this to the wrong address" forward every few months.

No I will not be knowingly using any Google passkey service, but perhaps I will someday find that they have signed me up for it anyway.

The dark pattern about signing up for google pay is absolutely inexcusable though. Sorry you're going through that.

I believe those transactions are never confirmed and are reverted after 7 days or something like that