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What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The trend of every thing and service having its own app, and pushing all this shit to phones and away from computers and websites..

And the reason that everyone and their mother pushes you to use apps, is because the amount of information they can harvest and tracking they can do far exceeds what they could ever hope to collect with a stand alone browser with its pesky privacy controls and security.. and everyone gleefully gives these apps every permission they ask for, even though they should never require access to 95% of it to function, because they cant let anything get in the way of getting their immediate gratification.