‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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You could install an android emulator on your personal computer then run the authenticator from there.
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The authenticator requires you to be in the college's network to set it up for the first time and I don't have a laptop.
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Ah, that does complicate matters. Good luck.
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The OC said in a different comment that you must be on the college network to set it up.
You don't need to tag me, by the way; I get a notification if someone responds to me directly.
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sorry, I'm viewing this from mastodon so the setup's different.
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All good. Hope you have a great day!
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Yes, it's a specific one. App only.
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Dang it!
I fell for it.
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I'm open to hear if you guys disagree with me, but that is not simply about not having a smartphone as much as it is about not having cell service, not using data service. If a person uses a libre VoIP app, there is no need for cell service, and people actually can live happy lives disconnected from internet when they are outside or in public.
Society must revert their mentality and not expect constant immediate access to everything. Absolutely nothing happens on the internet for personal activity that can't wait a few hours or the next day.
I use phone only for direct communication, zero multimedia, zero social media on phone. Everything else is done on computer. Especially banking, that is on computer website only for security, never on phone. I despise and resent using a phone for websites
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The main thing this article is talking about is supermarkets in the UK that lock all their sale offers behind the loyalty card. Until about a year or two ago, you could go in and buy things on sale or buy one get one free or whatever offer, and then use (or don't use) your loyalty card on top (to collect/spend points), but now you don't get any discounts if you don't have a loyalty card.
The article/campaigners are spinning this up into something about smartphones, because that's how most people use these loyalty schemes now, but they still have the old style cards so that's a bit of a red herring. The real issue is the way they're tying their standard offers to the loyalty program, and making it more difficult for consumers not to get caught out paying full price.
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Well, my old company sure made a ridiculous profit selling them. You may be looking at the cost per fob hardware, but not including the management cost. They are much more expensive than an authentication app, plus authentication apps are mostly managed by someone else, and you don’t have distribution overhead
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This is why I install such shit only if i have to, and only on vm
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In my experience, the only thing that really made them more difficult than managing end users who were using an authentication app instead was having to facilitate getting the fob to the users and replacing them occasionally and they were dirt cheap... Like less than $5 apiece.
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Understandable. In Germany it isn’t customary to have an AC, but I got one. It’s from Mitsubishi and has some cloud remote control app thing. I mean, ok, controlling the temperature from not home is maybe useful, but I haven’t and will never use it. I just set the Temperature and go on Auto mode…
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yeah yeah, people said the same thing about google home and amazon alexa for years.. until data leaks proved that was a lie, too.
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Dear reader,
The link is, indeed, a redirect to Never Gonna Give You Up
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They know that a lot of people would rather have it work a little better by getting an app, if they keep reminding people it's an option.
Even if "better" is just lack of nags.
It's sad. We need a digital privacy law so that an app can't be more invasive than the website.
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Does the supermarket sell the data, or use it for their own purposes
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(Local Area Code)-867-5309
Works every time.
