Comment on 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.

aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My favorite is when the QR code just points to their website, and you still have to choose a location, scroll through several pages of bullshit to find a menu, and select from a list of special menus to find the right one.

  That’s IF you can get the QR code to even work, because it’s been sitting on a table for 3 years and has long since passed the point of usability.

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• _number8_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  yeah, dining out is a pure luxury, especially these days; i want to feel the paper and see the typesetting and take in the whole thing at once, not scroll thru 3 items at a time on a shitty pdf that doesn’t render quite right on my fucking phone like i do everything else

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• TruTollTroll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh so much this!!! I hate having to use their QR codes. I was told that using most new QR through our phones give these sites using them, access to our recent photos on the camera app… I have a two year old I don’t want people looking at whom I don’t know…

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  • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It absolutely does not give them access to anything unless you install their app.

    QR codes are okay. They may be an annoyance, but they’re not nefarious or harvesting your data. (Again, unless you provide that data in another way, such as an app.)

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    • TruTollTroll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That is good to know. I felt like crap when my friend told me that the using most QR codes weren’t safe to use as they give the host access to some of your phones data and I felt dumb for not knowing…

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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nah, don’t feel bad about it. I had to think about it a bit and I’m a developer.

        Your camera app could potentially harvest the url, but unless you’re using a weird third party camera app, I think that’s quite unlikely for now.

        Google and Apple have other ways to get the same data. Is your default browser chrome or safari? They’d get the same data from opening a link and having it in your browser history. There’s no reason for getting the same data from your camera app in a way that would make (tech) headlines.

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