stux⚡️Dec 24

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.

Show threadstux⚡️
Now I feel stupid for downloading the app..
Dec 24 at 10:53pmWeb
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".