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.

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MagneticFusion@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

I have recently started university 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, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR DECADES.

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

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A person’s music taste seems to crystalize at some point in their teenage years. The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you’ll love forever.

Likewise, I’m finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago, and the new era of “apps for every individual thing” is just wholly unappealing. Give me a web browser to interface with your information. If I can’t get it done with that, I’m more likely to move on to some even older tech and skip your product altogether.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m late to bingo. And get off my lawn.

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- NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m doing my best to constantly listen to new music every week to keep fresh and malleable in my taste
  
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  - expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    yea, discovering is part of the fun
    
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I HATED rap and whatnot when I was 12-19 or so. Apple too.
    
    Now I’m constantly listening to clipping. and doneone and UGK (RIP Young Pimp C) on my iPhone.
    
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- Scrof@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Dunno I can’t stand the music I listened to in my teenage years.
  
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  - A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I dont listen to anyone I liked as I kid cause they all came out as sex traffickers and pedophiles.
    
    now I just listen to disney music, and waiting for the inevitable horror revelations with regards to those.
    
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  - Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING THE BLOOD BROTHERS
    
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- RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you’ll love forever.
  
  Thank god that wasn’t the case. Listened to some awful shit as a kid
  
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  - eumesmo@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Me neither. I wonder if that’s even true, because i see a lot of people changing tastes with age.
    
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- fraydabson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  PWAs for the win!
  
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- Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s altogether BS. The bands I listen to have changed constantly since my teenage years. That’s just an excuse to become a ranting old man.
  
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- this_is_router@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Everything that’s normal between age 10-20 is just as it is.
  
  Everything you get to know between 20 and 30 is the hot new shit.
  
  Everything after age 30 is just another fad you don’t want to invest time to get to know anyway
  
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  - GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
    
    Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
    
    Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
    
    Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
    
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
    
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- doppelgangmember@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wait come back!! You dropped your cane!
  
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- Whisp@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But...your grass is so nice and I can't afford a lawn 🥲
  
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  - TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    cut out avocado toast and Starbucks (sarcasm)
    
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- scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  One of the credit card companies I use has a website that won’t work properly anymore in my phone’s browser.
  
  My wife has a card through this company as well and she uses their app with no problems.
  
  I have zero interest in installing their app so once a month I fire up my surface pro just to pay that damn bill.
  
  It used to work just fine in the phone browser though.
  
  Should probably just cancel that shitty account one of these days.
  
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- Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  I’m finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago
  
  You are correct but it goes further:
  
  Any tech that existed before you start school is completely natural and quite boring.
  
  Any tech that is invented while you still care about new tech (this can be anywhere between 15 and 45 as it depends on the person) is exciting and cool.
  
  Anything after that is squarely in get off my lawn territory and a bit scary and confronting.
  
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- danwardvs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  An interesting experiment on the music thing. Top songs on your 13th birthday, at least for US/North Americans. www.birthdayjams.com
  
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  - jarvis2323@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wonder what they use your birthday for?
    
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- regretful_fappo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t think that’s tri,
  
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- radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t know if anyone growing up these days would actually like mobile app requirements if they took the time to think about why they’re required. Source: I’m one of them.
  
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  - Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Most people young or old don’t think about it and don’t care.
    
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- EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not necessarily… I grew up already in the era of apps, but have the same attitude. And I actually did actively use a smartphone during my tween and early teen years.
  
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- synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Nice bullshit armchair Freud u hating every change due to immaturity or unwillingness to learn doesnt mean we do too
  
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centof@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I realize you may just be venting but consider complaining to your college administration either via your student council or by yourself.

It should not be the norm to have to tell a stranger where you are to eat food.

You are paying for your education even if you are doing so via a loan and that gives you the right to tell them how you feel about them invading your privacy. In college and in jobs authority figures routinely try to control you and it is worth learning to take a stand against such abuses.

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- chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They literally could not give over fuck less. They are probably being paid or otherwise are getting done other kind of kickback to push these apps. Colleges are…I hesitate to say greedy, but let’s call it “capitalistic”.
  
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  - centof@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I agree with the sentiment, but if no one ever complains things are guaranteed to not change. At least this is, at the very least, an exercise in explaining your own viewpoints and understanding the workings of an institution. That is a skill and lesson that is valuable in the professional world.
    
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- Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  via your student council or by yourself.
  
  This is literally what the student council exists for! Also, OP could join student council! As a graduated student government nerd I highly recommend it!
  
  Worth noting the college probably did it because they want to appear to be technologically advanced. As part of Student government I visited a campus that had no public water fountains but did have a gigantic touchscreen map about the size of a normal printed map that conveyed no extra information that a printed map would. It was very clear what motivations were behind those decisions
  
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spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The number of business that just expect that everyone has already downloaded and installed their app has become ridiculous.

Best Buy now demands an app be installed for order pick up. They are so sure you’ll have already done that there are no instructions in their parking lot for pick up that don’t include the app, no way to call them, and the lot employees say, “Just use the app and we’ll get your order.” It’s like the 20% tips programmed into just about every payment machine these days. No, I won’t leave you a 20% tip for handing me a receipt.

Even when going to Best Buy’s service desk the reps looked at me like I was crazy. “No, I won’t install your app to pick up an order” was met with confusion and open irritation. Fuck that.

And don’t get me started on ‘Reddit is better in our crappy Reddit app.’

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- TruTollTroll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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…
  
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  - possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Just use third party apps. Oh wait…
    
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  - royal_starfish@lemmy.world ⁨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
    
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  - brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    When something’s flagged NSFW, you can replace the “www” with “old” (e.g. old dot reddit dot com) to bypass :)
    
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- Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fast food is about 30% more expensive if you refuse the app.
  
  Personal experience:
  
  Tim Hortons
  
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  Wendy’s:
  
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  - njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yeah, I hate that. At an old job, sometimes people would go around and take lunch orders before running to Wendy’s, Hate Chicken, or Chipotle. I’d way rather give my coworker cash and let them have the bonuses and discounts and crap while I maintain the privacy afforded to cash-only Chads. It’s still an L though because we’re still giving the companies money.
    
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  - kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That’s always the case in the beginning with those apps. And once they have market dominance and/or the shareholders want their ROI, they increase price and hope people still use it. See Uber for example.
    
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  - AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is why I hope to god when I’m living in my own we never get to the point where apps become 100% required to purchase shit from a store. I’d rather starve and miss a day’s worth of meals than order off an app.
    
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- new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Jesus, it’s like they want you to order online from a third party instead of paying them.
  
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  - slurpeesoforion@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    All the best buys I know of are shutting down. Doing the ol’ circuit city.
    
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- Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Weird. I can just go to the mobile site , pull up my order from my account, and get the barcode they need to scan from there. No need for the app.
  
  I can do the same with the desktop site.
  
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  - spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It would have been nice if they put that information on the sign in their pickup area, or their pickup reps or desk clerks mentioned it when I told them I didn’t have the app. Instead they made it clear that everyone should either already have the app or install it because they said so.
    
    Way, way too many companies and organizations (like the OP’s) are pulling this kind of crap.
    
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- SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Reddit is better in our crappy Reddit app.
  
  Oh fuck reddit for doing that.
  
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- YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I ordered online and picked up in store at best buy without their app. I showed them the email they sent with the info. No problems at all.
  
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  - spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Could it be you went into a different store than I did? How about that!
    
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DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I went to college before it was app everything and our student id’s were smartcards. Dining plan associated with the smartcard. Just stick it in the reader when you show up and you’re good. You could put cash on your card then use it for the vending machines or laundry or any little incidental on campus. If you needed cashed added to your account, your parents could go online and do it, or you could. That was the only online component. The entire system just worked without any fuss or privacy concerns or anything.

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- Whisp@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That's how it worked at Uni for me too. Basically like a preloaded debit card that also was a security card to let me in/out of buildings. Pretty convenient actually.
  
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  - idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Our university made it so anything you can buy with the card was like 20-50% more expensive tho. I usually never bought anything on campus because of it :/
    
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- chriscrutch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Almost without any privacy concerns. When I went to college around the turn of the millennium, I worked at the main food court on campus. We had a card system just like you’re describing. When we swiped the student’s card to pay for their meal, their student ID would come up on my screen. Their student ID was their SSN. Back then the first three digits of a person’s SSN was based on the state they lived in when they got their number assigned. For most people that was when they were a baby or at least very young, and for most people that’s the state they did most of their growing up in. I used to have most of the codes memorized, so when I’d swipe someone’s card and see that they had an SSN from someplace that wasn’t I’d mention it. “Oh, hey, you’re from Ohio? My aunt lives in Ohio.”
  
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  - DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yikes! That was a privacy nightmare. We were fortunate that the university assigned a personal ID on enrollment. I think the only place that had access to the social was the front office. Of course some of the students worked at the front office. I hope they were required to sign an NDA.
    
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- SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah it worked this was in the late 90s except your ID was a swipe card. You also had to go to the business office with a check to deposit more funds. Online was still dial up for most people.
  
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- radix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I like this too because it doesn’t require you to turn on NFC which I feel like drains power.
  
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  - KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How can people push back on this insanity? I don't want 500 goddamn apps on my phone nor do I want 500 accounts on "portals" or what fucking ever your calling it today.

I agree with OP, but how do we resist the borg?

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- Whisp@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I try to by from small local retailers whenever I can.
  They generally don't have the resources for apps like that, and/or they dont care to track their customers like that.
  Plus you support the local economy. Win win.
  
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- Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The 80s movie classic War Games has the answer:
  
  STRANGE GAME...THE ONLY WAY TO WIN IS NOT TOO PLAY...
  
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- pjhenry1216@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  In things where I can't avoid an account, I use an email alias (personally I use Mozilla Relay, but Proton Pass offers logins as well if I recall.
  
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jackfrost@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My apartment complex wants me to download some third-party app just to pay my rent, instead of using their perfectly serviceable web portal. I assume they’re getting a data harvest kickback that’s buried in several layers of fine-print legalese, which will be used to send me targeted spam and junk mail. And that data will be sold and re-sold to other parties ad infinitum. Whatever they can collect about my personal life, for sale to any asshole with enough cash in their pocket. Fuck that. I shouldn’t have to deal with this bullshit just to keep a roof over my head.

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ChrislyBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And furthermore: Most of these shitty apps are nothing more than overblown API clients. Which means they didn’t want to build a website and operate a webserver, so instead you provide the processing power for the UI yourself. These apps usually can’t do anything on their own, if you are offline, becaue all the value is generated remotely by the actual server.

The modern software experience sucks much!

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AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My favorite barber was booked out recently, so I just walked into the next one across the road, which looked new and had no customers inside. Asked for the haircut, and he said sure, what’s your name and email address? I was confused and asked why he would need that, and he said it’s for his app to book appointments and charge customers.

I walked out without getting a haircut.

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Cihta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
An app in itself isn’t a bad thing… it’s the requirement that is wrong. Everything these days does seem to be geared around data mining and control. That well has to be getting awfully dry because it’s getting worse and worse.

You can’t even use many products without having an app that needs to be connected online so it can read your contacts and searches and such. Sites are getting harder to use if you have a DNS ad blocker or VPN on. Not sure where it ends…

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Krakova@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My apartment “upgraded” us to digital locks and now we have to use an app to unlock our door. I was so pissed the entire time they were installing them. I don’t like the idea that the locks could run out of battery and keep us out, and I feel much more insecure in my apt. It also feels like our comings and goings can be spied on now. I hate this future.

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MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I insist on doing as much as I can on my mobile browser to reduce the number of apps I have and only use apps that I feel are useful. Forcing me to use an app for trivial things just means I won’t use your service at all.

Works pretty well, and one of the things I like about Lemmy is that the mobile browser experience is perfectly fine, it’s good in its simplicity.

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eumesmo@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Can’t agree more. And the issues go beyond data harvesting. For example, recently, I lost my phone and carried on for a while without it, only to realize we’re building a society in which we are slowly losing our citizenship rights if we don’t have a phone. I found myself locked out from many things, and having to go so many alternate routes, that I had to get a new phone quickly.

It all happened so subtly, and I saw it happening, but still, it’s hard to believe we came to this point without the people manifesting some sort of opposition. I get even more worried about the developing countries, where not everyone can properly afford a phone.

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dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Funny you mention enshittification, I just watched a talk from Cory Doctorow who coined that term and he pointed out the reason for insisting on an app is that it means you can’t block ads without violating the DMCA. Browsers can have adblocker extensions, apps cannot (unless you hack them.)

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pukeko@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
A while ago, I started keeping a personal library/journal/etc. using Logseq. I could fire up Logseq in any browser on the planet, connect to my notes, and jot down whatever idea I had in the moment, all in a FOSS journal that stored my notes in plaintext markdown.

Then … I don’t know what happened, but 100% of their effort went into building an app, which then required them to build a (paid, proprietary) sync service, all rather than just releasing a self-hosted build of the web interface so I could spin up my own note-taking server. (Please don’t suggest alternatives; I’ve probably tried them all.) To “preserve privacy” and promote “local first”, I had to download an app and rely on a closed-source backend to do something I could trivially accomplish on my own. If my platform doesn’t support the app, no notes, unless I rely on the increasingly unmaintained web “demo” that does exactly 100% of what I need from the service, despite dozens of features missing compared to the app version.

But the kicker is that I cannot install things on my work computer. At all. Not portable apps, nothing. I will get a phone call from infosec if I even try, because we are a heavily regulated company. So if I have a bright idea at work, a thought I want to preserve, find a good article, etc., I have to go to another device. I have to interrupt my workflow, change my focus completely, and, probably, lose half of what I wanted to capture.

The thing is, I don’t think they’re data farming. I think they’re running a really good project! Users were begging for an app. “When are you going to release an app?” was a common question forever, because a whole generation of dingleberries cannot be bothered to go to a website that does the same thing, faster, and better than any app.

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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, this is a trend I’ve been commenting on for…well it seems like a very long time.

It’s clearly enshittification in nearly every single case; the more clueless johnny-come-lately tech-trendsters want to label me as just being old-fashioned or something when I bring it up. Trying to explain to them what is going on is usually a pointless exercise, as they have been steeped in a new==better mindset that is nearly ironclad and since they didn’t use reason to get themselves into that position, but instead, emotion, trying to reason them out of it is not going to happen…

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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Need an account just to use my new gaming console. Another account to play Diablo IV. I bought the goddamned console and game. I had to sign into an app for the console. Why can’t I just play the game? The Samsung display that I got for the console (I have a projector, so I needed something for daytime use) is a “smart” display. That wanted me to create an account with an app on my phone. I just woke up, so if I rambled, oh well.

I think we’re at the point where everything will suck to the greatest degree from now on. There’s no room left for business not to suck (Amazon ads on Prime unless you pay more, as an example). Goodbye anything that isn’t terrible.

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thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I refuse to use services that demand you use their app.

Services only need a website for the most part, not only is this easier for development cost but it is simplier to create a mobile friendly website instead of creating an Android app, iOS app and a desktop app.

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TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I opened a bank account at Bank of America. Apparently it was just a matter of course to make people install the BOA app before opening an account. I practically had to fist fight them to get them to drop it. It was like they got commissions for every app install or something. Scary, honestly.

At least I learned from the experience that “I actually don’t have the Play Store on my phone” isn’t a good way to get them to drop it. I guess next time I get hard sold on an app, I’ll go the “I’ll decline the app, thanks” route. We’ll see whether that works or not.

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kambusha@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Reminds me of the Always Sunny ep where Dennis tries to get a bubble tea

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JoJoGAH@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I went to join Planet Fitness, they insist on an app. They watched me leave. Kroger charged more than advertised, ooooh it was a digital coupon only available through the app. I left the item with the cashier. Order out? Only on an app? I guess I didn’t want to eat that so much anyway.

Not going to do it, it feels controlling and abusive and I’ve worked too damn hard to let that shit go on.

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And related, if your hardware product requires me to create Yet Another Account just to plug it into my computer and have it work, I’m returning it.

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arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This won’t help in the above case so it’s a little off topic. But I got rid of Twitter on my phone and still use Twitter on my phone - Basically you just open twitter.com in Firefox, and go to the menu and click “Install”. Now you get a launcher icon to an “app” but it’s just the website hosted by the browser. I

Instantly saves 150Mb, stops it doing evil shit and because it’s hosted in Firefox I get to block all the ads.

I would advise doing this with any app which has a desktop / mobile version and see what happens. Some social media sites will nag you to install the app but some won’t or will be functional in spite of it.

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etuomaala@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Large parts of the City of Toronto bike share—public infrastructure—requires such an app. Taxpayers without an iphone or android computer can’t access the services they already paid for.

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Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sounds very hackable. Have you considered getting a degree in information security and penetration testing? All you have to do is hack all the systems to give you free lunches and access your neighbors laundry. Then write write a thesis about how you spent several years messing around with the world around you. It’s science if you write it down.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I had to download an app to pay a bill recently. What the fuck is that about?

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aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i want to go to a restaurant and get a physical menu, instead of having to dl an app using a QR code.

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FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i was looking for a new toothbrush yesterday… they have app enabled toothbrushes. bluetooth. why the fuck do i need an app to brush my fucking teeth?

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tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does the uni not cater to older people who don’t have a phone? They probably have old systems if you insist on not having a phone.

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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Reminds me of the episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where they pick up people in the “Paddy’s Wagon” and Dennis forces them to use a painfully overblown app just to buy a couple of beers. It seems to have cooled off a bit but the rush for every little business to have its own app reminds me how every pizzeria and dry cleaner felt the need to have a website and social media presence.

I have 3 goddamn parking apps I have to keep on my phone, each with its own account, just so I can park in various cities when I travel. I’m sure my data is 100% secure too…

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root@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m about to suggest another app for you to install. :p

If you’re using an android phone (I don’t know if it exist on iOS) install the DuckDuckGo app. It has a feature called “App Tracking Protection”. It is supposed to block all trackers. I think it works as one of the games i have installed on my phone takes about a minute longer to load, compared to without the tracking protection. I think this is the next best course of action (apart from not installing / using the required apps).

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