Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes
by 8fingerlouie on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:24PM
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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.
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.