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A lesser standard still applies if it either embeds or redirects to a payment page. Again, shouldn’t mean shit, but still.

Because the alternative seems to be a Russian intelligence asset.

the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they’re paid

Yeah, but the whole PCI DSS thing means that the app must still be secured. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be tied to Google Play, but explain it to them.

IIRC they did coupons exclusively in their app a few years ago where I lived (haven’t checked since), and they hiked the price of everything, so if you don’t install the app, you get a 20% surcharge in effect.

That goes for every single shitty chain store as well.

I guess the problem is that app developers write the installers, and they suck at following conventions. Obligatory fuck Snap, as it creates a folder in the home dir, and it doesn’t even bother to hide it, and it is not even reconfigurable.

or /opt, or a binary in some hidden folder in /home…

We went on holiday in Iceland, the place where we slept one night had the nearest gas station 160 km away, the nearest grocery store at more than 300 km. I loved it for a few weeks, but I would not move there.

Better not forget the eggs.

Then don’t look up I guess.

The problem on its broadest is if companies put out shitty products and the line still goes up, then the line going up does not mean the economy is producing what we need efficiently. That means the system is obviously broken. Maybe the system never worked in the first place.

That, and society does not like it when you do so, and the more you get off the beaten path, the harder it gets.

At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.

Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.

And this doesn’t include the idiotic AI shit they do.

Way ahead of you.