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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 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by MagneticFusion@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

This won't help in the above case so it's a little off topic. But I got rid of Twitter on my phone and still use Twitter on my phone - Basically you just open twitter.com in Firefox, and go to the menu and click "Install". Now you get a launcher icon to an "app" but it's just the website hosted by the browser.

Instantly saves 150Mb, stops it doing evil shit and because it's hosted in Firefox I get to block all the ads.

I would advise doing this with any app which has a desktop / mobile version and see what happens - Facebook, Reddit, LinkedIn etc. Some social media sites will nag you to install the app but some won't or will be functional in spite of it.

[–] infix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Hey that's interesting. I haven't used Firefox on iphone for a while because I didn't think it was possible to add a blocker. Is that now possible? If so, which one do you use?

[–] SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 0 points 2 years ago

In order to add ad blocker on my phone I just setup my ad block on desktop, setup Firefox sync and then signed in on my phone. At that point it pulled ublock origin and installed it. Not sure if it's the same process for IOS but it's worth giving it a shot.

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