"Uh, do I really need to install this app to order food?"

"Yes. And also we'll need access to your contacts, location 24/7, your photos, microphone, and possibly your soul."

"…I just wanted a pizza."

"Cool. In exchange, here’s 6 push notifications a day, and targeted ads for gym memberships (because you're eating too much pizza)."

Let's look at App Tracking, why it's bad & how you can turn it off πŸ‘‰ https://tuta.com/blog/app-tracking

#AppTracking #BigTech

@Tutanota

This is hilarious to me because I'll stop using a web site if its TOS are too weird or if its cookies are pushed too hard. I don't tolerate shitty practices because I simply don't have to. It's a big web, you're probably not unique.

Businesses, if your shit isn't frictionless, I'm not going to buy a damn thing from you.

Install an app to pay you? Fuck off, lol.

@troy_frizzell @Tutanota Have adopted the same principle for EV charge points. Need me to install an app? There's another charge point not far from here. Like mushrooms in the rain, here in Finland...
@martinvermeer @troy_frizzell Terrible! Speaking of EV charge points, another topic is cars and how they collect and track our data. πŸ˜’

@Tutanota to tell iOS not to track does not mean anything. There is a study which says that 80% of the software developers ignore this, because it is a recommendation and not enforced.
And this setting is meant for external app but has no meaning to apple app. The same is true in google.

https://blog.appcensus.io/2019/02/14/ad-ids-behaving-badly/

https://untertauchen.info/2024/04/auch-apple-ignoriert-ihre-datenschutzeinstellungen/

@Tutanota Crazy how some people know about this and they don't give a fuck.

"Why should I care if they collected all my data anyway?"

It's SICKENING and concerning how we normalise these things...

@Tutanota

Welcome to "enshitification".

The easy solution is to just not buy a cell phone.

Saves money and gives you time to look around and enjoy the local flora and fauna.

@Tutanota I avoid any such crap by making my own pizza. Y'know, starting with flour, cheese, stuff like that.
@TimWardCam Homemade pizza is better anyways. 😎
@Tutanota This is why it pays to keep an old mobile - wipe it, minimal setup, install the apps you'd never even consider having on your main phone. It doesn't need a SIM, just wifi, so monitoring your phone's status isn't a factor. Find accounts on device, there's 1 burner Google account used only for the play store and nothing personal on there so find whatever accounts you want. Tasker force closes or disables apps completely for minimal crossover.
If I *must* install it, it's on the old phone
@Tutanota Out of the article I got the major issue of tracking is the targeted ads. Is that correct?
@nk Yes
@Tutanota
Not that bad, right? Finally, they can propose a set of stuff I want, not just a random trash, and no other risks at all?