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I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] radix@lemmy.world 241 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

A person's music taste seems to crystalize at some point in their teenage years. The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you'll love forever.

Likewise, I'm finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago, and the new era of "apps for every individual thing" is just wholly unappealing. Give me a web browser to interface with your information. If I can't get it done with that, I'm more likely to move on to some even older tech and skip your product altogether.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late to bingo. And get off my lawn.

Me: "seems to" "at some point" "probably" while making a minor, secondary point. Others: Severely Triggered

[-] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 70 points 9 months ago

I'm doing my best to constantly listen to new music every week to keep fresh and malleable in my taste

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago

yea, discovering is part of the fun

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

RIP what.cd’s amazing music discovery spider web chart

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

I leaned hard on Waffles top 10 and also turntable.fm rooms after college.

Now in my 40s, I’ma little bit stuck in the LCD Sound System era of electro indie.

[-] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

For me it depends on the mood. New stuff is fun, but stuff I know can be instantly trabsportative to moods or mental spaces and it feels good. New stuff can be too mentally engaging if I’m trying to do focus work or zone out. I think I listen to less new stuff now because I’m usually wanting to zone out with music more than actively engage with it.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago

I HATED rap and whatnot when I was 12-19 or so. Apple too.

Now I’m constantly listening to clipping. and doneone and UGK (RIP Young Pimp C) on my iPhone.

[-] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 37 points 9 months ago

Dunno I can't stand the music I listened to in my teenage years.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

I dont listen to anyone I liked as I kid cause they all came out as sex traffickers and pedophiles.

now I just listen to disney music, and waiting for the inevitable horror revelations with regards to those.

[-] swab148@startrek.website 21 points 9 months ago

Well, it's Disney so...

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

I WILL NEVER STOP LOVING THE BLOOD BROTHERS

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 31 points 9 months ago

The bands you loved at 15-17 are probably the bands that you'll love forever.

Thank god that wasn't the case. Listened to some awful shit as a kid

[-] eumesmo@lemmings.world 10 points 9 months ago

Me neither. I wonder if that's even true, because i see a lot of people changing tastes with age.

[-] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago

PWAs for the win!

[-] this_is_router@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

Everything that's normal between age 10-20 is just as it is.

Everything you get to know between 20 and 30 is the hot new shit.

Everything after age 30 is just another fad you don't want to invest time to get to know anyway

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

[-] this_is_router@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Oh cool, thanks for providing the source

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Wait come back!! You dropped your cane!

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That's altogether BS. The bands I listen to have changed constantly since my teenage years. That's just an excuse to become a ranting old man.

[-] scottywh@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

One of the credit card companies I use has a website that won't work properly anymore in my phone's browser.

My wife has a card through this company as well and she uses their app with no problems.

I have zero interest in installing their app so once a month I fire up my surface pro just to pay that damn bill.

It used to work just fine in the phone browser though.

Should probably just cancel that shitty account one of these days.

[-] danwardvs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

An interesting experiment on the music thing. Top songs on your 13th birthday, at least for US/North Americans. https://www.birthdayjams.com

[-] jarvis2323@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wonder what they use your birthday for?

[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I’m finding that my relationship with information services as a whole probably crystalized a while ago

You are correct but it goes further:

Any tech that existed before you start school is completely natural and quite boring.

Any tech that is invented while you still care about new tech (this can be anywhere between 15 and 45 as it depends on the person) is exciting and cool.

Anything after that is squarely in get off my lawn territory and a bit scary and confronting.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

I don't know if anyone growing up these days would actually like mobile app requirements if they took the time to think about why they're required. Source: I'm one of them.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

Most people young or old don't think about it and don't care.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Not necessarily... I grew up already in the era of apps, but have the same attitude. And I actually did actively use a smartphone during my tween and early teen years.

[-] regretful_fappo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't think that's true. I like what I liked what I was a teen but more in a nostalgic kind of way. I definitely didn't like harder metalcore in my teens the way I do now lol.

[-] synceDD@lemmy.world -5 points 9 months ago

Nice bullshit armchair Freud u hating every change due to immaturity or unwillingness to learn doesnt mean we do too

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