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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 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just put my oldest child in school this year and I had to download FOUR apps. Four fucking apps. Why? This could have been a Progressive Web App and a push notification service. There is no need for this.

[–] TheBat 13 points 1 year ago

Have you considered refunding the child?

[–] WarlordSdocy 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of the time for universities it's cause they're not building their own custom tools for this stuff, just using off the shelf solutions that they can implement locally. So they just grab one app or system for each different thing they need instead of building one connected one.

[–] MrLuemasG 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm a programmer at a community college and this is like us. Although we don't have any apps, we have different web apps that we use. My current job is trying to use the APIs for each of them to try and build cards in one central web app that bring in the functionality from the other web apps to minimize the amount of time you spend going from web app to web app

[–] Crow 3 points 1 year ago

You often can use web apps (of sorts). Most of those apps mirror the functionality of an already existing mobile web page. Then you just make a little web app container of that mobile site.

[–] yaaaaayPancakes 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PWAs still lock you into the Chrome ecosystem since Firefox doesn't support them (without plugins and pain).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Firefox for Android does support them fully, it's just desktop Firefox that doesn't have pwa support.

[–] Crow 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safari supports them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

AFAIK Safari Desktop for MacOS does not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Progressive web apps don't work for shit on ios. Why bother developing it for Android users only when you'll need an alternative regardless?