I have recently started university 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, for the dining plan, when it would literally work perfectly fine using your student ID and ordering to a real cashier, LIKE HOW IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR DECADES.

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

  • this_is_router@feddit.deEnglish
    71·
    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.websiteEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

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

      1. 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.
      2. 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.
      3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

      ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt