• comrade_twisty@feddit.org
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      12 days ago

      What they are doing is way worse tban what you understood.

      These QR codes will show on your Desktop PC and you will need an Android phone or an iOS device with a logged in Google QR code app to get past it.

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          Ayup that has been the holy grail of big tech.

          They are most of the way there today. Make Identity Resolution inescapable. Bing bang boom.

          It is more than just phones and lappys too. It’s everything. That smart TV. That fitness watch. That automobile. That streaming music service. The ebook reader you got as a birthday gift.

          Your behavior across every single device is data gold. This is today’s reality.

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            Yep, data gold to sell to data brokers and investors so they can sell you shit that you don’t need and can’t even afford.

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        I wouldn’t scan shit from a website. Random QR codes are a security risk. Just won’t visit that website.

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          That’s why you have to use the special google app that will protect you from all these dangers*

          *and also collect all your data, sell it to advertisers and forward it to US surveillance agencies (for your own protection of course).

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            Sad thing is, that argument works against so many ppl. “I can trust this app. It’s from Google!”

            We(*) are tearing down personal computing. Brick by brick. The very idea of controling our own devs is getting lost. Replacing with Big Tech Feudalism.

            (*) Not most of us here. But in the whole pop.

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        I am in no way condoning Google’s behavior, nor am I trying to normalize it. With that out of the way: maybe running Android Studio with an AVD might be a decent workaround. For now…

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      11 days ago

      And nothing of value was lost. I’m over social media, over commercial apps, and maybe I’m over having a mobile phone, too.