That’s a good example of why I believe we can’t tech our way out of Google & Apple control. “Just use Linux bro” can’t save us. Everything gets locked down behind a “trusted platform” Android or IOS gate.
It’ll be sold to the public as protecting the children, ofc. Or protecting us from terrorists. Or as an important tool in the fight against scammers. Or w/e. There will be reasons. But the end state is techno-fudalism.
They state that they protect our privacy but that’s just corpo for saying “we harvest your data and you will like it, but we do not sell it … for now.”
There are extensions for it in the stores, but better extensions or apps to traduce short URLs and QR codes (I hate this shit) into clear URLs, to avoid surprises.
That’s not the point. They want me to connect with a phone and do all kinds of weird things with that information.
I made an offline QR decoder to deal with that nonsense, still have to go to some linkexpander website. All of HTML must be recreated with huge javascript libraries, but the URL has to be in a tiny form… Their priorities are not my/our priorities.
Scan with what? I’m on a desktop!
That’s a good example of why I believe we can’t tech our way out of Google & Apple control. “Just use Linux bro” can’t save us. Everything gets locked down behind a “trusted platform” Android or IOS gate.
It’ll be sold to the public as protecting the children, ofc. Or protecting us from terrorists. Or as an important tool in the fight against scammers. Or w/e. There will be reasons. But the end state is techno-fudalism.
They state that they protect our privacy but that’s just corpo for saying “we harvest your data and you will like it, but we do not sell it … for now.”
I expect they think that a significant percentage of people that have Internet also have a smartphone. They probably aren’t far wrong.
There are extensions for it in the stores, but better extensions or apps to traduce short URLs and QR codes (I hate this shit) into clear URLs, to avoid surprises.
That’s not the point. They want me to connect with a phone and do all kinds of weird things with that information.
I made an offline QR decoder to deal with that nonsense, still have to go to some linkexpander website. All of HTML must be recreated with huge javascript libraries, but the URL has to be in a tiny form… Their priorities are not my/our priorities.