αxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎Feb 3

#Olio is an app to fight food waste. It let's you find food that would otherwise go off, give food, but also things.

As the goal is decent, I was willing to overlook some of the bad, starting with it not being FOSS.

A few years ago, the web version of the service was killed off. Hmm.

Then, they introduced selling items, which rather went against the initial idea of the platform.

Now, there's a classic / illegal "consent" screen when you open the app, and it's *bad*. (Classically illegal?)

Show threadαxel simon ↙︎↙︎↙︎

You won't be surprised to hear that this #GDPR consent thing:
- only offers "accept" as a quick option
- puts refusing behind a "more information" thing
- lists tens of trackers, sorry, "partners" with a pre-checked (opt-out: illegal) "legitimate interest" switch (also illegal), hidden behind yet another menu/link (anyone surprised this is also illegal?)

This feels like #enshittification in all its glory. Never mind that, on top of this, it feels like the place has become a ghost town.

Feb 3 at 5:11pmWeb