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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] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where they pick up people in the "Paddy's Wagon" and Dennis forces them to use a painfully overblown app just to buy a couple of beers. It seems to have cooled off a bit but the rush for every little business to have its own app reminds me how every pizzeria and dry cleaner felt the need to have a website and social media presence.

I have 3 goddamn parking apps I have to keep on my phone, each with its own account, just so I can park in various cities when I travel. I'm sure my data is 100% secure too...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The final episode of the latest season goes harder on this issue. This time the turns have tabled though.

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

no physical park meters in the streets?? can they even enforce parking fees then? like, I understand private companies doing such bullshit, but not public entities

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

Wait until you find out that some cities sold or leased parking rights to private companies.

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

that's some backwards-ass capitalist dystopia, even if you account for car-centrism