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People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m not one to praise Google often but I think their Popular Times feature can be handy to see how busy a place might be. This live feed video stuff is way over the top and invasive.

[–] Lemminary 9 points 5 months ago

Same thing I thought at first. "Oh, so like that one feature from Google Maps" Nope, just some shitty tech bro tech.