Eh, they can’t be honest about wanting you to use the app to be able to collect your data better.
To be fair, they didn’t say who it was better for.
My favorite non sense is with Reddit, if I browse an NSFW page in incognito on mobile, a popup appears : browse anonymously download the app. Right
old.reddit to browse NSFW pages.
I just went thru this w/ Progressive. They basically demanded that I install the app to make a claim. I have a DOD phone and I can’t install anything on it. Whats a shit show…
McDonald’s: Are you using our app today?
Me: Why the fuck would I do that???
Because they charge you 50% more if you don’t use their app.
Which means the extra data they can grab via their mobile app is worth at least that much to them, if not more.
The app doesn’t capture anything that you don’t specifically agree to when it pops up and asks if you want to give it access to it. I’ve been using the app for months and I simply said “no” when it asked the “request to track” question. I can literally see that it has zero access to any of my data on my phone.
It’s not actually that simple. Maybe you click no and don’t give the app access to your contact, but your friends who have you on their contact list might click yes, and now they have your contact info despite you clicking no. I imagine they’ll have similar tricks for gathering other type of data as well.
Psst, that’s web 2.0. Web 3.0 is stuff like Mastodon, Lemmy, IPFS, cryptocurrencies (unfortunately), Kbin…
Can’t collect as much data on web platform due to all those pesky ad blockers…
But as a mobile app:
I would get slapped with a restraining order for stalking if I’d do this IRL. But companies successfully convinced themselves that targetted ads are effective, completely ignoring the reality that everybody is just fed up by them. Browsing the web without an adblocker is atrocious and it feels like they are trying to bully you into buying their nonsense.
I think that all started in the 90s when the focus on brand recognition was insane and actually resonated with society for reasons unbeknownst to me. The shit that’s happening now is just the resulting endgame. We 90s kids really fucked up, I’m sorry.
“We can datamine you better on the app”
