post related to my last question about Deutschland-Job-Ticket and avoiding google, a company the transportation authority seems to have a deal with.
Some of you have suggested I download a pkpass file. Great!, let me download something so I can save it to my phone!
Nope, the google icon I pasted in my first post (see here as well) simply redirects me to a google service to CREATE A F&#(#&% ACCOUNT WITH THEM!!
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I just learned what a pkpass file because some of you seem to know this technology, but ain't it an apple technology?
Second question is, how widespread is the use of pkpass in Germany for travel documents and for android devices? I don't know if most of the people answering this question are people not residing in Germany.
And yet another question, if I send an email asking the transportation authority what kind of technology they use for travel documents, if they provide any alternative to google or any way to download the ticket in either pkpass format or any other format that doesn't require me to give my personal data to a data grabber, if they provide plastic travel cards to people that won't allow their data to be used by google, what are the chances they won't ignore me or outright laugh at me?
When I cross the Atlantic I pdf or screenshot the plane ticket. Never had a problem. Why can't this be like that?
Can't really answer your questions, since u have never heard of the technology in question, but when you book the "Deutschland ticket" (Germany ticket), which gives access to every form of public transportation except IC/ICE for 58€ per month, you simply get a QR Code that you can take A Screenshot of.
Sometimes local providers claim that screenshots are not allowed. It is really annoying and you have to show your id all the time.
When I got mine from the university, they said the QR code changes monthly. Is that different with the regular one?
The Ticket is always dor A single month and refreshes every month, so yeah. It does change.
With the wallet app the refresh happens automatically, and I only need to manually do something every semester.