• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I really hate when they advertise something on sale in the store, but they only give you the sale price using some bullshit app or you have to sign up for something. No. Fuck you. Give me the god damn advertised price or don’t advertise the sale anywhere but your fucking garbage apps.

    • AngryDeuce@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I got flamed to oblivion when I said that it’s stunning how many people will gladly allow any old app onto their phone and have access to their data and scrape their life patterns in order to get like 2 for 1 fucking McDoubles or something.

      Used to be when they wanted marketing data they paid professional firms to go out and perform scientific research and compensated people for participating in the study. Now they just throw a 50% off coupon at someone that they may or may not even use and people are like “Here’s all my location data for the last month as well as all my contacts and hell why not be able to use my camera and microphone too fuck it, 50% off a Happy Meal is just too much to pass up”

      I’ve literally gotten up and left a restaurant before for not having menus. A QR code on a stand on the table that takes you to a fuckin PDF download…fuck outta here with that bullshit.

  • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    The website for my place of work is pretty terrible. I have customers tell me all the time “well it doesnt say that on your website!” Now, half the time they are referring to googles AI answer.

    The other half of the time I click and poke thro our website on their phone, until I find it. Ok it wasnt obvious and Im sorry our site sucks. But your reason for insulting me and my coworker when we are calmy and clearly explaining what is wrong or what needs to be done?

    • tomkatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It’s 2026 and I still wear a mask when I’m out. I don’t know why people act like COVID is gone and somehow long COVID isn’t a thing anymore. It’s still mutating, and endemic now, and there are a ton of health consequences to catching it that may not be immediately obvious, including organ damage.

          • Azrael@reddthat.com
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            3 days ago

            Funny. Nord has a bit of a tainted reputation though. I wouldn’t touch them with a 10ft pole.

            • Skv@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              I wouldn’t fucking trust any of them, since they literally get to see ALL your data, ALL the time. You as a pleb and not 733t h4x0r will literally never know if they launder your data and all they have to do is know whom not to bother as there are very, very few of such people as a whole.

              • Azrael@reddthat.com
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                3 days ago

                You clearly haven’t done a lot of research then. Lots of VPNs have no logs policies, those VPN providers have been audited, and their claims of no logs hold up.

                Take Proton VPN for example. They’re based in Switzerland. According to Swiss law, If you collect data, you must justify it, protect it, and be transparent about it. Proton wouldn’t risk their entire business on the assumption that they won’t be caught lying. Why do you think so many companies set up their headquarters in Switzerland?

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Around 2015, My niece told me she worked at a bank teller and the first thing they did was require her to install the bank’s app and rate it five stars. She said her phone is too old and they got angry. And she’d tell me they’d do “phone sweeps” to see if the app was on people’s phones.

    Do min-wage companies still do this or do they know better?

      • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        5 days ago

        America is a pro-business country.

        They can fire you for any reason, like if they hate you’re gay. They don’t SAY that. They wishy washy it with “not a cultural fit”. Or throw you into difficult situations so they can fire you with “unable to complete tasks”.

        I have Europeans who joined my company surprised at how little protection they get.

    • ctry21@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      There is a bank in the UK that used employee bank balances to prove they didn’t need a pay rise last year, which they were able to do because banking with them was a condition of employment

      When I was in school they once checked everyone’s phones to make sure we had installed Twitter and followed the school’s accounts for each department. That was about a decade ago so it’s probably TikTok or something by now.