Comment by dminik
4 days ago
There's been some reporting recently where I live about a case of some woman being scammed.
She went to a bank to transfer the scammer money. They told her no. She came back the next day. The police got involved and explained everything to her. Then she came back the next day. After that, she apparently found another location which let her transfer the money.
There's basically zero chance a 24 hour (or any amount of a) cool off period will help these people.
Just because you have one example of someone who would not realize doesn't mean that the number of people who would realize is zero.
It's not one example. The scammers purposefully target people like these. That's their business.
Like, I'm sure there's a small amount of people who normally wouldn't get scammed but fall for it in a panic. But, is that really such a big concern for Google that they absolutely must continue stripping user freedoms from us? Is the current 30s popup which needs 3 confirmations not enough? Will the new one really work?
Yes the most likely to fall are going to be targeted, but if you make that group of people 90% smaller with a delay that is still beneficial.
Whether the feature is beneficial overall is a different story. But helping some people is great even if it doesn't help everyone.
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