Nearly every company I’ve come in contact with has asked me to:
A. Install their App
B. Give Feedback
First, why do I need the app? Very few had an actual good reason beyond what you’d expect from an email or Wallet ticket. One provided some minigames and additional context, which was very neat. Another added some animated tingles to the ticket to make it harder to copy, but nobody ever checked and it could be exported to an Apple Wallet anyway.
@futuresprog Big talk on #EverythingOpen about apps and https being largely about big players ring-fencing their data, preventing adblockers, and shifting functionality of the web onto their own regional servers for distribution while cutting data transfer costs.
@futuresprog When the talk comes out on video I'll give you a link. The presenter is more capable of expressing the issue in a 45 minute presentation than I am in a Mastodon toot.
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