Right but if a company has a buy with Google/Amazon/PayPal/Apple button you better believe I'm taking that option immediately over giving yet another random company that I trust less than a 2am gyro cart unfettered access to my credit card details.
The real kicker being that you aren't just trusting their honesty, you're trusting their long-term data security.
It's a regular occurrence for companies of all sizes to fail to protect customers' payment card information. For some reason, no-one talks about how preposterous is it that we still handle many online payments through total trust.
Little comfort knowing your card details will eventually expire, especially considering that they no longer really do [0]
As you say, far better to go the PayPal route, despite their considerable problems [1]
