Google’s approach to money is many-pronged. There’s Google Wallet, Android Pay, the open Payment Request API it’s spearheading, and now the brand new “Google Payment API,” to name just a few of its approaches.

This latest system will allow you to buy things — both inside apps and on websites — using your Google account. Most people have a credit card stored with Google for some reason or another, like for Google Play Store purchases, or a YouTube Red subscription. The new API will allow third party developers to charge you through your Google account, with Google handling the security and processing.

If this all sounds familiar, it’s because Google actually had a product that it killed off back in 2013 called Google…

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