stux⚡️

Online shopping 2025.

🤵 Orders something online.
🏬 Want to track the order?
🤵 Yes!
🏬 Scan this code:
🤵Uh, okay.
🏬 Download our app to track your order.
🤵 Ugh.. alright..
🏬 Before you can use our app you need an account!
🤵 Never mind!

Data data harvesting, it's all data harvesting.

Dec 24 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadstux⚡️Dec 24
Now I feel stupid for downloading the app..
Show threadGrassroots JoeDec 24

@stux

Enshittification continues apace...

Show threadCassanderDec 24
@stux Agreed. Shop sucks so much. I groan every time I order something from a shop that uses it.
Show threadSencha Wizard 🍵🧙‍♂️Dec 24
@stux you're not. they are for doing this.
Show threadBillDec 24
@stux What gets me is shop.com and the like who recognise me by cc number and then send receipts to the last email they saw. That was fun this Christmas for gift buying. I've never set up an account or installed an app ner nuttin.
Show threadAndrew ZonenbergDec 25

@Sempf @stux I gave a Square merchant without a receipt printer my work email address so I could get reimbursed for work travel expenses I had paid on my personal credit card.

Now that CC is linked to my work email at Square and every time I buy something at the local farmers market my work email gets the receipt.

Show threadCassandrichDec 25
@stux Yeah, the way to avoid that is "request desktop site".
Show threadDr GDec 24

@stux

Cancel the order.

Show threadF4GRX SébastienDec 25

@stux no, it's not alright !

No apps.

Only 17track.

Show threadMD. IshanDec 25
@stux You don't know how hard I try to leave no trace like the amount of email aliases I have is diabolical like my aliases have aliases. People who use their tech and internet private and anonymously need to have patience of a saint
Show threadIan K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠDec 25
@stux In Capitalist America, package tracks YOU
Show threadMichelle HughesDec 25

@stux

I don't get it, don't they already have your information because you bought the thing???

Show threadBrokarDec 25
@stux You're the product, don't forget.
Show threadAndreas KDec 25

@stux
Actually, the parcel services here in Austria skip the app step.

And you do get your basic data without registration.

But if you want advanced stuff like changing something about the delivery then they want a registration.

Show threadDanni StormDec 25
@stux Don't forget the onslaught of permission requests the apps shove down your throat
Show threadcaraneaDec 25
@stux
Step 1: any app I'm asked to download will be scrutinised six ways from Sunday in terms of what rights the darn thing wants. Way too many apps want access to stuff that they 100% don't need, except of course for data mining... Enshittification will continue until morale improves I guess.