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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* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have recently started a new position 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 in order to get your food when it would literally work perfectly fine ordering to a real cashier or shit even a website rather than having to download an app.

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

Magne

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It absolutely does not give them access to anything unless you install their app.

QR codes are okay. They may be an annoyance, but they're not nefarious or harvesting your data. (Again, unless you provide that data in another way, such as an app.)

The website may ask for your location, but the browser will prompt you for that. If you're at the restaurant it's fine to hit "only this time".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is good to know. I felt like crap when my friend told me that the using most QR codes weren't safe to use as they give the host access to some of your phones data and I felt dumb for not knowing..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, don't feel bad about it. I had to think about it a bit and I'm a developer.

Your camera app could potentially harvest the url, but unless you're using a weird third party camera app, I think that's quite unlikely for now.

Google and Apple have other ways to get the same data. Is your default browser chrome or safari? They'd get the same data from opening a link and having it in your browser history. There's no reason for getting the same data from your camera app in a way that would make (tech) headlines.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm chrome.. sadly.. but only on my phone cause it's through boost mobile and it's moto G stylus phone.. so I am lucky android stuff even work on it.. but it's still kinda of sketchy and I was not gonna be surprised if it was true QR codes were accessing my data because of the phone type I use