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
Yeah I was flabbergasted. They said “scan this QR code to pay your bill” and then the website said I needed the app. I’d be fine with online pay but not a fucking app.
My buddy works as a software engineer at a ace that develops parking apps. He’s a pretty vocal advocate for allowing people to pay through the website. They do allow it thank goodness. The last thing anyone wants to do after parking is get an app running they’ll probably never touch again.