My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app

Re:My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse... by joshstrange on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:30PM (#50382602)

Years ago when I went to Planet Fitness I didn't like their app and it was slow to load the barcode I needed to scan to get in. Thankfully that barcode didn't rotate so I was able to just make my own Apple Pass and set it up to be geo-fenced on the gym so as I walked up it would pop up as a notification I could tap to open my code.

I love being able to do things like this and rip out the crap being forced down our throats.

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Re:My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse... by mywittyname on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:32PM (#50382636)

I spent 30 minutes trying to get my friend's "visitor pass" to work for me, before giving up.

The person at the front desk was absolutely no help and could have been replaced with a sign that said, "you can do everything in the app."

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Re:My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse... by stvltvs on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:25PM (#50386020)

If it doesn't rotate, I'd just take a screenshot and put a shortcut to it on the home screen.

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