‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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The same goes for customer loyalty cards. All market tracking schemes should be rightfully banned.
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Nothing wrong with getting stuck on zombo.com. After all you can do anything there.
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What does that even mean?
Most people here would be satisfied with a working website they can access from any browser or OS, mobile or desktop.
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[https://youtu.be/0dGqR4ue8dg?si=tA1s-S3jdz2SwEoo](Idk i trust Snowden's take on this over yours)
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Every service and site had their own malicious toolbar they'd ask you to install and / sneak it into the install for other software. They also came loaded with malware and or siphoned data from you. Older/more tech illiterate people would have browsers looking like the picture above and come to you wondering why their computer is so slow or why they keep getting viruses.
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We used to be free from such bullshit, but some companies have started trying to bring similar systems here in Brazil, especially drugstore brands that would ask for our id number in every order to give "discounts". Fortunately, this practice is now being investigated, and I hope the companies lose the case.
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@alekwithak @techforwhat Norton Antivirus is still at it
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See:
- MindShift
- Cox Media Group (Alternative non-subscriberwalled link here)
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Don't lose hope, lead the resistance!
Out of curiosity, how many flip phones have you used since 2007?
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I still miss firefox os and feel sad for them not succeeding. Their app system could have become a multiplatform standard and allow us to have much more options in the smartphone market, as well as better desktop integration and interoperability
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And that's one of the benefits from open source apps. I have a very low end and dated phone, and yet I have more apps installed and hardware functionality than the average person, because I grab everything I can from f-droid. It's amazing how much smaller and performant everything is.
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Out of curiosity, how many flip phones have you used since 2007?
My current phone is a flip phone. A Samsung Galaxy Flip 5
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I don't vouch for these, as I have not used them. But, I found this rewritten one and this one with LLM.
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I keep seeing this headline and thinking it's a slur
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No way would I use that app.
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what's the rationale for IT not wanting to pay for the fobs?
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innocuous
Calling people "cultists" doesn't sound very "innocuous".
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I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64
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What ticks my off is that I have the stupid Safeway card and the stupid Kroger card. But now there's more deals, better deals if I do a digital coupon requiring the app on my phone, too. It's not enough to know about all the regular items in my home, from celery to toilet paper, but they also must need to hoover up all my digital into as well? Dude, just buy it from Meta or whichever jerks have it all. Half-price grapes ain't the right price.
