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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 8 months ago) by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude same here for the Reddit prompt ! I browse incognito without a profile just to see some headlines... and every ten minutes or if I got to a risque sub, it will stop me and ask for the app download or if I want to stay on the browser..... if I wanted the app.. I would have gotten it.. I am on the browser for a reason...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use third party apps. Oh wait...

[–] TruTollTroll@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah... Miss boost for reddit...

Excited it's coming out for Lemmy though. Right now I am on liftoff and it works well though

[–] royal_starfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Try to use "request desktop site", stuff may be sized weirdly, but at least you don't get that stupid pop up anymore

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When something’s flagged NSFW, you can replace the “www” with “old” (e.g. old dot reddit dot com) to bypass :)

[–] Aslanta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing!