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'"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by lemmingnosis to c/assholedesign

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This is after forcing login to a store account:

At least they don’t hide in their ToS that:

“l agree to let Walmart monitor my use of Walmart WiFi, including to:

Determine my presence in Walmart stores
Associate information about me with my Walmart account
Improve products and services
Gather market insights about my in-store purchases and activities”

But that’s not enough, they need to monitor your internet activity further too.

For further reading, some greatest hits (the section headers on Wiki’s Criticism of Walmart):

Local communities
Allegations of predatory pricing and supplier issues
Labor relations
Poorly run and understaffed stores
No AEDs in stores (automated external defibrillators)
Imports and globalization
Product selection
Taxes
Animal welfare
Midtown Walmart
Opioids settlement

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Meh, that's not a great argument to make.

Yes, Google is largely an advertising company. But they're also a tech company.

We can argue that Apple is a tech company first, but it's also an advertising company (they do collect gobs of data about users - which we really don't know much about how they use it).1

I could easily say they're both data collection companies with a massive tech side.

Not sure where I was going with all this, other than this isn't the clearest argument to make. And how you feel about it really isn't useful. I don't like any of them, though I feel worse when using iOS from the lack of transparency and inability to change much of anything. Root actually exists for Android, unlike iOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That is a fair take, but looking at it from a general user's perspective, they just want a phone that works, they won't tinker to get it working like they want.

In that regard I find the setup wizard on iOS and Android to have two very different personalities.

iOS guides you step by step, it talks about sharing user data and gives you controls to turn it off right in the wizard.

Last time I set up an Android phone, a Nokia 6.1, running Android One, Android was more of a "don't worry about privacy, just logon and have fun!" personality.

So for normal users, my reaction is that iOS is better.