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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also hate apps which request for unnecessary permissions. I have a dashcam which has an app to view the recorded videos. The app requires bluetooth as well as gps location info. Bluetooth is understandable but I don't see the need for GPS. Unfortunately for me I can't seem to get mock locations working properly on my phone. It also refuses to work if i do not give it location permission. :(

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For locating the camera with BLE. Needs to see relative location, only possible with location permission. Turn it off after pairing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I use the work profile via Insular/Island, and certain apps I don't like but do want I put in there, and freeze whenever not in use.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One potential solution is to use an old phone and keep accounts/apps that you HAVE to deal with solely on that device. Dont use the device for anything else. Use it only on wifi. Keep it at home.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was so much better 20 years ago when all the shitty proprietary data harvesting apps came pre-installed with Windows.

(Yeah, I know they still do that, just slightly more covertly.)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly its fucking annoying literally had to make several user profiles just for my work life and my other invasive activities

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm totally sure all these shithouse apps adhere only to the strictest standards in regards to data security also...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Wait until you need an app to visit your child's grave

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. This is how I know I'm old.

From 2013. https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/1e5acw/ha_i_dont_want_your_fucking_app/

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Feels like we're in a TechnoFuedal society

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've moved mostly to progressive web apps that truly stop when you close them. For sure they will try to use trackers when they're running but you can stop that with pihole or NextDNS if you're on the move with your mobile. You can regain some control if you have the motivation to do so. If you have to install an app, you can still block tracking via these methods and more.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I got an apartment from a housing company that came with a "smart" Bluetooth washing machine. Of course it works just fine without using Bluetooth, but if I so were to wish to use such services, I would need to provide access to Bluetooth, WIFI, and location all the time. As in, I'm not allowed to turn that off.

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