Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In many cases this means avoiding the service altogether. So long as you are good with that, then yeah by all means, don’t download it or use the service. I don’t use plenty of services because I don’t want their app. Instagram is one of those.

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• eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bro wtf. I can’t pay for a parking spot without a feckin app.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Couldn’t even get into a baseball game recently without having to download an app

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I swear that has to be illegal

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    • polysics@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tell that to 2FA apps for banks and enterprise security systems.

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      • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My bank demands sms.

        I want my own authentication app so I can access my account even if my phone is missing/dead

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Should be. I bought tickets on the official website but they would not accept receipt or even verification from that website. Needed a qr code and only way to get it was with app. Had to step out of line, download the app, remember login I had generated from website, login and pull up the qr codes for my tickets.

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• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember getting a boarding pass from an airline that was only offered in their app or printed at the airport, no email/download image/PDF option. I didn’t have to install their app, but I would have had to waste time at the airport otherwise. I removed it when I was done and left it a negative review.

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• _bcron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah but then they might pull a Reddit and make their mobile web experience shittier and shittier in hopes of sheepdogging people into the app.

  If customers are telling a business what they want, and that business sabotages it to force customers to begrudgingly accept what the business wants, that’s not a customer problem, that’s a dumbass corporate idea

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