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

      • nudny ekscentrykEnglish
        3•9 months ago

        are bank transfers nonexistant where you live? how would they expect an 80-yo patient to pay?

        • Flying SquidEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          You tell me. Because they required me to use an app if I wanted to pay the bill at home. Maybe you could go over there in person and pay with cash. I can’t help what they want people to do.