this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2024
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16216017

My grocery store wants to know my BMI

If they were interested in my location they could request location data. What are the odds they are doing this to directly market products to people based on health data?

Inb4 “They already do that based on what you regularly purchase”

Of course, yes they do. This appears to be one more layer on top of it. And surely they wouldn’t share that information with the pharmacy, right?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The prompts from iOS are usually generic, it looks like this just may be a custom prompt from a website, might even be an ad or fake link, luckily iOS locks down their phones in the browser so you can’t really have anything bad happen other than lots of tabs opening but you can just kill the app.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The background does not look like a browser.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In fairness it’s cropped so you can’t see the whole screen anyway

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The barcode scanner and search bar are not provided by Apple?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Nope that would be in the app or browser. It looks similar to my local grocery app/loyalty website