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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 by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Always Sunny ep where Dennis tries to get a bubble tea

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How Ironic I click the piped link. It throws a can't play error and asks me to download the app. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

It works for me. Ate you serious?

[–] MattTheTekie@social.venith.net 3 points 1 year ago

It plays fine for me on my phone. On the site ofc.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your comment convinced me to click on one of these piped links for the first time out of curiosity to see what result I would get ...

"Error 1002"... Whatever the fuck that means

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Error for me too.

[–] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I absolutely love the piped project but its never worked for me, ever. I use invidious instead which works about 80% of the time lol...

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Even though Piped often doesn't end up letting me play the video no matter how much I click on the play button, I can at least take solace in the fact I can copy the yt link and boot it in newpipe. At least we have options.

[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I get the 10002 error. I'm setup that it tries to view it via Firefox mobile version with an ad blocker running.