Installing gas station spyware sounds to fill up sounds like hell.

It only knows your location when you open the app, why is that a problem?

I assume they will require an account of some sort, and their DB will inevitably be breached to leak it who knows where. It knows more about me than my location. Probably. I don't know what all the proprietary software running on my portable sensor suite does or knows.

And almost without fail corporate one-off apps are bloated piles of contracted out and barely maintained garbage taking up too much space when a couple of forms and a few Mb of graphics/logos would do. Lastly very few actually work well or reliably, logging me out after needless updates seems to be a common pattern.

They require an account yes, but don’t kid yourself, every time you use a credit card to purchase something, your habits are being tracked by the merchant, using your very identifiable card number.

As for garbage apps, the one I use is well maintained, 53.7 MB binary, so not much on the side of tracking considering it contains ALL of their gas stations with pump details, paid parking lots and car washes. I had to check if it actually used an account, because I don’t remember ever signing in to it.

So good apps do exist.

It's probably not a problem in a place like that with some kind of privacy regulation. Import the concept to the US and it'll be outsourced to some company with sketchy security that'll find all its user data leaked in a year because they'll face no social, economic, or legal consequences for not preventing it. If they're not selling the data themselves.

Both of which will still require pumps to be replaced.