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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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[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Smart phones ruined the internet

[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. The corporations have ruined the Internet

[–] lloram239@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smartphones is what gave them control. On the PC you can still filter most of the nonsense away. On smartphones the user is no longer in control and has to eat up whatever they get served.

[–] RealWarrenBuffett@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly why I don't even bother with mobile games. That market feels so oversaturated with paywalls, scams, microtransactions and ads.

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, greedy people ruined the internet.

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

The internet ruined the internet.

[–] Getallen@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

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[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Capitalism ruined the Internet

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People ruined capitalism

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Money makes pretty much everything worse.