▲ 151 ▼ Scan to Verify You're Human (lemmy.ml) submitted 1 month ago by Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 53 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/66542364 No I don't think so
[–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago (3 children) Scan with what? I'm on a desktop! permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (1 child) That's a good example of why I believe we can't tech our way out of Google & Apple control. "Just use Linux bro" can't save us. Everything gets locked down behind a "trusted platform" Android or IOS gate. It'll be sold to the public as protecting the children, ofc. Or protecting us from terrorists. Or as an important tool in the fight against scammers. Or w/e. There will be reasons. But the end state is techno-fudalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago They state that they protect our privacy but that's just corpo for saying "we harvest your data and you will like it, but we do not sell it .... for now." permalink fedilink source parent [–] twkm@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago I expect they think that a significant percentage of people that have Internet also have a smartphone. They probably aren't far wrong. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child) There are extensions for it in the stores, but better extensions or apps to traduce short URLs and QR codes (I hate this shit) into clear URLs, to avoid surprises. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago That's not the point. They want me to connect with a phone and do all kinds of weird things with that information. I made an offline QR decoder to deal with that nonsense, still have to go to some linkexpander website. All of HTML must be recreated with huge javascript libraries, but the URL has to be in a tiny form... Their priorities are not my/our priorities. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (1 child) That's a good example of why I believe we can't tech our way out of Google & Apple control. "Just use Linux bro" can't save us. Everything gets locked down behind a "trusted platform" Android or IOS gate. It'll be sold to the public as protecting the children, ofc. Or protecting us from terrorists. Or as an important tool in the fight against scammers. Or w/e. There will be reasons. But the end state is techno-fudalism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago They state that they protect our privacy but that's just corpo for saying "we harvest your data and you will like it, but we do not sell it .... for now." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sidebro@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago They state that they protect our privacy but that's just corpo for saying "we harvest your data and you will like it, but we do not sell it .... for now." permalink fedilink source parent
[–] twkm@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago I expect they think that a significant percentage of people that have Internet also have a smartphone. They probably aren't far wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child) There are extensions for it in the stores, but better extensions or apps to traduce short URLs and QR codes (I hate this shit) into clear URLs, to avoid surprises. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago That's not the point. They want me to connect with a phone and do all kinds of weird things with that information. I made an offline QR decoder to deal with that nonsense, still have to go to some linkexpander website. All of HTML must be recreated with huge javascript libraries, but the URL has to be in a tiny form... Their priorities are not my/our priorities. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml 1 point 1 month ago That's not the point. They want me to connect with a phone and do all kinds of weird things with that information. I made an offline QR decoder to deal with that nonsense, still have to go to some linkexpander website. All of HTML must be recreated with huge javascript libraries, but the URL has to be in a tiny form... Their priorities are not my/our priorities. permalink fedilink source parent
