I have recently started a new position and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy in order to get your food when it would literally work perfectly fine ordering to a real cashier or shit even a website rather than having to download an app.

I have also read many stories of people that live in apartments that require them to use a mobile app for god damn LAUNDRY. All you need, is a card reader, and it will work perfectly fine like it has been for the longest time.

Privacy concerns aside, it is just annoying that you need this app and that app and this app and that app and it just clutters space on your phone. Security concerns too as now they have all of this additional info on you online, such as your phone number your email your real name, instead of just your credit card info like a card reader would have. And I am willing to guarantee that their security model is absolute horseshit because they have such a small team of engineers working on the app and the servers.

Literal enshitification

Magne

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Hey that's interesting. I haven't used Firefox on iphone for a while because I didn't think it was possible to add a blocker. Is that now possible? If so, which one do you use?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I believe you can't because Firefox on iOS is re-skinned Safari

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On Android you have to setup sync and install the ad blocker of choice on desktop, then sign in on the phone and it will pull your plugins and sync them, worth also trying on IOS as even on Android it's not as simple as going to plug in manager and installing.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    what? no. you click [...] menu, Add-ons and pick uBlock Origin. no need to login or anything

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I only use Android so I don't know. Check the menu and see if you have add-ons and you can install uBlock Origin. Edit - it looks like thanks to Apple being Apple, Firefox on iPhone is a wrapper around webkit and doesn't support add-ons. Maybe you could still make a launcher though I don't know.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    In order to add ad blocker on my phone I just setup my ad block on desktop, setup Firefox sync and then signed in on my phone. At that point it pulled ublock origin and installed it. Not sure if it's the same process for IOS but it's worth giving it a shot.

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