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Looking for an alternative to google wallet, when it’s the default option to download a German travel card. (lemy.lol)

submitted 5 days ago by loomy@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33213275

I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of this so called Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:

Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.

I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.

The site: https://abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.

Any workarounds?

This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?

Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?

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[–] menemen@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Are you 100% sure there is no physical card? Did you ask the local provider? I just ask, because I have a physical card for the Deutschland Ticket.

Other than that there is a Deutschland Ticket app. But it won't work for every provider. It does not for mine.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.deutschlandticket.app

[–] langweiligeflunder@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In the city OP is living (I can tell from the ticket portal) there exists a physical card for regular Deutschland Tickets and you are free to choose from various providers with differing integrations and apps if you don't want to buy it from the local transport authority. The corporate portal OP needs to use (due to his employer subsidizing the ticket) only offers a digital version that can be saved to Google/Apple Wallet, though. There are plenty of third party wallet apps allowing you to scan and store QR codes but the Deutschland Ticket renews on a monthly basis, which I think sadly requires a more sophisticated wallet app like Google/Apple wallet as the QR code changes each time the ticket renews