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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] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tip on TVs: look for signage TVs. Much better possibility of them not being smart TVs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

If you do buy a smart TV, yanking the network connection and use a Pi to drive the TV connected to a media server. And use OTA antenna.

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

My piece of shit smart TV flashes the power light when it's not connected to the network. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

mine does something similar...electricians tape fixed that shit real fast

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