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

  • radix
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    29 months ago

    I like this too because it doesn’t require you to turn on NFC which I feel like drains power.

    • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      79 months ago

      I mean, it does. But it’s such an insignificant amount you’d never notice.

      If you got an hour of use out of your phone for instance, you’d only lose about 18 seconds runtime.

      • radix
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        19 months ago

        Huh, today I learned. I’d always assumed it was like Bluetooth or location.