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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] 1 points 1 month ago

Recently got a notification when visiting m.facebook.com in a Firefox based browser that my browser will soon be unsupported on Facebook and I should download the Facebook Lite app. I haven't had the FB app installed for over a decade and for much of that, I've been using the version designed for dumb(ish)phones that hasn't had the experience enshittified the same as the full mobile site, the desktop site or the app. You can actually still see a list of your friends, potentially even in alphabetical order. Even the feed seems to still show real stories from your friends and not all the other crud. If the simple mobile site goes away, I will probably stop using FB except checking once a month to see if far away friends and family sent something. In no case will I install the app. It's bad enough that I have an account there at all.