Mastodawn

Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:

1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.

This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K"

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Sven Peter Jan 30

@elly i just don’t understand why these charging stations have to be different that gas stations 😕
They are a mess in .de as well

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Niels J Jan 30

@sven
There is an EU regulation, in force since last spring(?) requiring any new or renovated charger to accept credit cards. Big chargers must have a reader, small chargers a link to a payment page (which has hopefully not been modifies by scammers). But I've heard complaints that it's not really enforced in Germany? At least in Denmark it's gotten better.
@elly

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onterof

@niels @sven @elly in germany there is a regulation (since 2023 or 2024 I think) that new chargers must accept regular bank cards. But a lot of older ones that are now not exclusive any more still don't. Existing chargers must be retrofited (with some exceptions) until 2027.