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I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I have recently started university and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR DECADES.

I have also read many stories of people that live in apartments that require them to use a mobile app for god damn LAUNDRY. All you need, is a card reader, and it will work perfectly fine like it has been for the longest time.

Privacy concerns aside, it is just annoying that you need this app and that app and this app and that app and it just clutters space on your phone. Security concerns too as now they have all of this additional info on you online, such as your phone number your email your real name, instead of just your credit card info like a card reader would have. And I am willing to guarantee that their security model is absolute horseshit because they have such a small team of engineers working on the app and the servers.

Literal enshitification

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[-] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de 55 points 1 year ago

My favorite barber was booked out recently, so I just walked into the next one across the road, which looked new and had no customers inside. Asked for the haircut, and he said sure, what's your name and email address? I was confused and asked why he would need that, and he said it's for his app to book appointments and charge customers.

I walked out without getting a haircut.

[-] m_f@midwest.social 34 points 1 year ago

Good, that's the only way people like that will change

[-] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

That may be why he had no customers

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

fake@fake.com

Same thing but with a phone number. They were baffled that I didn't want to give my phone number for a haircut.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Hell, I get annoyed at being asked my first name at the counter in fast food places.

Like, give me a break... I'll be the guy who looks like me standing right fucking there waiting for it... We don't need to be on a first name basis... We ain't friends.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

"Mork". And you know it'll be unique.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've thought about giving them Darth Vader .. lol

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Give a fun fake name then! My wife and I did that when we ordered sandwiches on off days and they actually drew fun doodles on the sandwiches to go with it a couple of times!

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