I just wanna b*tch about this. They both force Android/iPhone apps to use their pay stores now. Ostensibly for simplicity and security. But they also charge a 10%-30% cut of the transaction for the pleasure.
This is why you cannot directly buy or rent Amazon videos from the Amazon app on your Android phone or tablet anymore. They just force you to get on a web browser to purchase directly so they don’t have to either eat the cost or charge you more.
If you use Twitch, you will also see that subscriptions purchased or gifted through the Android app cost $5.99/mo instead of $4.99/mo. And they’re all managed in parallel/separate from all the normal subscriptions because the Google Pay payment has its own 10%-30% Google tax on it perpetually.
It sucks, it’s way the hell more than it ought to be for a transaction fee, and especially hurts smaller platforms like ours. /rant
I personally prefer to leave my monthly support through Patreon which I believe takes less?