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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] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

This won't help in the above case so it's a little off topic. But I got rid of Twitter on my phone and still use Twitter on my phone - Basically you just open twitter.com in Firefox, and go to the menu and click "Install". Now you get a launcher icon to an "app" but it's just the website hosted by the browser.

Instantly saves 150Mb, stops it doing evil shit and because it's hosted in Firefox I get to block all the ads.

I would advise doing this with any app which has a desktop / mobile version and see what happens - Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn etc. Some social media sites will nag you to install the app but some won't or will be functional in spite of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hey that's interesting. I haven't used Firefox on iphone for a while because I didn't think it was possible to add a blocker. Is that now possible? If so, which one do you use?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe you can't because Firefox on iOS is re-skinned Safari

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

Damn! Ok

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

On Android you have to setup sync and install the ad blocker of choice on desktop, then sign in on the phone and it will pull your plugins and sync them, worth also trying on IOS as even on Android it's not as simple as going to plug in manager and installing.

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

what? no. you click [...] menu, Add-ons and pick uBlock Origin. no need to login or anything

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

Did they update it? For the longest time, you had to use their account sync to get ublock on Android

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

No idea, this is how it was for me for the past 2 years

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

I only use Android so I don't know. Check the menu and see if you have add-ons and you can install uBlock Origin. Edit - it looks like thanks to Apple being Apple, Firefox on iPhone is a wrapper around webkit and doesn't support add-ons. Maybe you could still make a launcher though I don't know.

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

Assuming ios has the same extensions as android, I recommend ublock origin. Used it for years on both PC and android with hardly any issues.

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

In order to add ad blocker on my phone I just setup my ad block on desktop, setup Firefox sync and then signed in on my phone. At that point it pulled ublock origin and installed it. Not sure if it's the same process for IOS but it's worth giving it a shot.

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