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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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[–] snek@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

First of all, ew.

Second of all, RIP your phone's battery if you're forced to keep Bluetooth on.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I will never throw it my mother in law's stove or washer or dryer. I think all are 1950s-80s and repair parts and manuals are available all over online. Rather than fighting LG or Kenmore or Samsung or whoever and getting screwed after spending big $$$ on a smart appliance, I just buy a part, usually <$100, and fix it myself. I have a few more delicate items that I wash in my parents washer because it is more gentle, but it also doesn't clean as well as the old machines. Power consumption doesn't matter so much in this case because there's solar on the roof offsetting the extra usage, and from an environmental perspective, replacing a machine and disposing of an old one has a cost as well.