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They have this at my university. Their main model seems to be advertising. Though personal data is required at sign up, it isn't significantly more than what wo
by abtom 8y ago
They have this at my university. Their main model seems to be advertising. Though personal data is required at sign up, it isn't significantly more than what would be on your resume.
You need to sign up with your details on a website and need to activate a QR code each time you visit. Show the code at the counter to collect coffee. As you collect your cup of coffee, the barista speaks out an advertisement (yes, really) which is a short description about one of the sponsor companies. There is a limit on number of cups you can take per hour and day. I've never used it but it's immensely popular among students and even professors.
There is no option to pay for the coffee and bypass the advertisements/sign up process. Can't wait until all food and drinks everywhere are "free" this way.
- mach5 8y agocan you just lie to them about your personal details?
- abtom 8y agoYou can, but not in a useful way. They verify the phone number, email and college ID card the first time. So your major and other details of value are known to them. For other questions you don't gain anything by lying because they're about what fields your interests lie in, et al.
- lovich 8y agoI'd say it's good practice to put garbage data into anything companies try to collect about you. They may be able to correlate your profiles from multiple data sources, but if every source has different values then you love protected your privacy to some small degree at least
- softawre 8y agoThis is a major premise in Mr Robot. They built a tool that makes it easy to add junk data to every data stream out there about you, effectively ruining the data.
- Nursie 8y agoHave you seen the recent Netflix series "Maniac"? "Adbuddy" is a service in that where you can get stuff bought for you, but a 'buddy' turns up to advertise at you. --edit-- notice this has already been brought up down-thread
- philipodonnell 8y agoThis is the first thing I thought of after finishing that show last week. Prescient.
- branchless 8y ago> Can't wait until all food and drinks everywhere are "free" this way. Maybe I'm crazy, but doesn't this seem like it's absolute hell on earth? "Paying" by listening to advertisements? It's turning the actual world into what the internet has become: unusable without adblocker.
- sova 8y agoThe barista's vocal chords are hijacked to parley an advertisement? And tell me workers' rights have not all but died on this continent.
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