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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 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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[–] Kazumara@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Swiss Post did that too, you used to be able to buy "stamps" (well codes you would write on the envelope serving the same function as stamps) over plain old SMS. They they stopped that since they have that new whatever service. That service works on a PC browser, but on the phone browser the function is not available, no there you need the app. For fucking no reason at all.

[–] jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.ninja 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just a thought, but have you tried requesting the desktop site from your mobile browser? I've had luck with a few websites that have missing features on their mobile pages.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's so easy to forget that setting exists.

[–] Kazumara@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I tried that but it didn't get me around it, I don't remember if the site just didn't respect the browser request or if it was unnavigable...

[–] BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Swiss post is the worst... Abusing the state monopoly given to them to push their shitty login platform for EVERYTHING.

I bet this platform is as safe as all the rest...

[–] Neon@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

the SMS stamp was really really great

that said i'm pretty sure the Post doesn't harvest your Data

[–] meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Just assume everybody harvests your data. There’s no way to prove that they’re not liars and just doing it anyway.

There are several examples of companies and government agencies that have been caught doing things and retaining data they shouldn’t - only after a breach released all the info.

Home Depot wasn’t supposed to store credit cards but they did it anyway in violation of PCI, for example.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Everyone that doesn't have the brains to institute good security harvests your data. It's just for someone else that they're doing it.