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

  • @[email protected]English
    11•9 months ago

    Fast food is about 30% more expensive if you refuse the app.

    Personal experience:

    Tim Hortons

    Wendy’s:

    • @[email protected]English
      17•9 months ago

      That’s always the case in the beginning with those apps. And once they have market dominance and/or the shareholders want their ROI, they increase price and hope people still use it. See Uber for example.

    • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      This is why I hope to god when I’m living in my own we never get to the point where apps become 100% required to purchase shit from a store. I’d rather starve and miss a day’s worth of meals than order off an app.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•9 months ago

        Grocery shopping and food prep is always an option. Cheaper and healthier too.

        If you have time to browse Lemmy, you got time to throw some shit in an air fryer/insta pot/slow cooker.

        • Dizzy Devil DuckyEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          That I can totally agree, as someone who actually enjoys cooking. If I could get my family on board, I wouldn’t mind getting their help making and freezing meals on the weekend for days when we just don’t feel like cooking or my mother’s back is bothering her or whatever.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•9 months ago

            My bachelor days I’d make a tray of lasagna or a pot of beef stew and I had meals for almost 5 days. I will say that I was really sick of lasagna or beef stew by day 4 though.