‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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I use a dumbphone. I'm not buying a smartphone just so I can play these stupid games, and I'm installing an app for every fucking business I interact with. I realize there will one day be a point where I won't be able to do things I need to do without one, but until then I have no desire for one. Fortunately they haven't made the parking meters here require a smartphone yet.
My grocery store still uses loyalty cards for most discounts (which is irritating enough), but also has "digital coupons" that require an app so I can't get that. Theoretically I could go to their website and print them off but that's not worth the effort. I have to pay close attention to the price signs they put up because some of them say "with digital coupon" in small print, meaning "not for you, bitch". You know who doesn't pull this kind of shit? Walmart. So I wind up getting a lot of my groceries there so as not to be discriminated against.
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One of these seems to be one of the best ways to order pizza from Papa John's.
They usually have a special for a Large Pizza for pickup, and at the checkout, you can ignore the add-ons and choose "make it extra large" and it's the best deal I've seen for papa johns XL pizza.
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I remember this being true almost as soon as smart phones and QR codes were invented. There were so many things you just couldn't do as easily if you didn't have one. Even in 2006.
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It's called "Active Listening"
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
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I for one cheer and root for my flip phone friends.
Why are you cheering for a lack of self-control?
Smartphones are great. You just need to be smart enough to not let them use you.
It should put into perspective who is a useful idiot, and who is not.
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Man, I hate when people like you come out with "justifications" like these.
No. They should be banned. Trying to "justify" their existence with "well umm, sometimes you can just talk to other customers for theirs!" is fucking stupid.
Why are we so eager to do the work of our oppressors for them?
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because normal websites and normal browsers have inbuilt protections for you.
Ding ding ding.
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Eh. The internet was always shit because of scammers and useful idiots.
Really the only way to make it not-shit is to have governments step in and protect us from what useful idiots have been conditioned to accept as normal.
Governments only serve rich people though, so we're SOL.
It's a cultural problem.
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That's what you get, honestly.
Hopefully you can learn from this and not waste your money on garbage.
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I'd still be using my S8, but I got a free phone sent to me from Visible because I refused to upgrade.
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How about you get some courage and drop your brand loyalty?
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Even if “better” is just lack of nags.
Well, they just swap nags from "download out app" to "rate our app" no matter what you do, you'll be nagged...
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Smartphones are objectively better than flip phones.
The flip phone praise comes from useful idiots looking up to children who lack self-control.
It's all bass-ackwards, but that's how far we've strayed from the truth.
The powers that be are happy, though. We're just not one of them.
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Have you tried... self-control?
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For some things it's more convenient for customers. For others, it's more convenient for businesses.
We, as customers, need to promote what's convenient for us while ignoring what's convenient for businesses.
Keep in mind: we are not on the same side as the people taking our money.
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Flipphones.... I want a full keyboard phone again. Maybe even a slider full keyboard. Those were the days.
Apps... I evade most apps as much as i can or if i must use closed source apps, i will put them in a secondary profile.
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I remember toolbar days.... I used to lov--- sorry i admit this ... Installing them .... shivers for my sins
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No Virtua Girl?
