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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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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] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

but do you really expect to have an expectation of privacy when using someone else's network

That is kind of the concept behind the internet. A bunch of networks passing packets along, using the same protocol, not asking questions about their content.

Fifteen years ago we had a whole battle and everyone other than the evils at the top were against deep packet inspection. This new generation is a bunch of bootlickers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah, wtf is going on here? You're allowed to say corporations shouldn't do things, even if they're technically legal.

Are these people such fierce libertarians that they support Eli Lilly's right to price gouge diabetics for their insulin?

[–] fishos 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Do you miss the part where you're not paying to use that network and it's offered as a free service? I'm old too dumbass. I remember before wifi even existed. Do you also go to Walmart and expect to be able to charge your batteries for free off their power? Or use their phones for free?

You're confusing free as in beer and free as in speech. No one is forcing you to use their FREE service. Use your own cellular network jackass. The network that you DO pay to use.

What's next, going to someones house and demanding their Wi-Fi password because "the Internet is free man!"

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

I mean, with that logic you might as well argue that this whole community is pointless because no one is forced to use any of the products or services that use an asshole design, free or not.

The purpose of this community, as I see it, is to point out anti-consumer practices used in existing products and services. While it could be intended to get the attention of someone who can change it, realistically it's an asshole design because they likely knew it wouldn't be well-liked from the start.

The purpose of this community as I see it is:

To vent or discuss anti-features.
To warn potential or current users that they might prefer to avoid the service or product.
To warn naive designers that it's not a feature without controversy, if they are inclined to think, "oh, these other guys do this so no one will care if I also do it".

Walmart isn't obligated to offer wifi, but sometimes you can have a shit deal even when the price is 0.

[–] lemmingnosis 2 points 4 months ago

Check this post out Buddah

Note the significant spittin’ of fax between the top and bottom rows of pixels

There were maybe one or two comments I think posted early on that made me think “wait, did I post this on CorporateJerk or HailSamWalton by mistake” 😀

Wal-Mart sux, public WiFi is not ideal, yeah duh now lemme poop on a particularly poor example of Fortune 50 behavior pls 😉

(Hmm by which I mean Fortune 1)