What's the reason to remove it, privacy?
is it possible that the payment app use it to calculate whether the balance it enough for the payment request?
We want to prevent the merchant website from finding the exact amount of money in your wallet.
Comparing total to wallet balance was the original intention, but we don't think that's a strong enough use case. In addition, the payment app is free to ask user for refill their balance or do so automatically.
Comment 1 by rhalavati@chromium.org
, Jul 10 2017