Because of things like this I stopped updating apps a long time ago. But now many apps have a “phone home“ aspect, where it will literally lock you out of using

Because of things like this I stopped updating apps a long time ago. But now many apps have a “phone home“ aspect, where it will literally lock you out of using the app if you don’t upgrade to the latest version every so often. Which is especially annoying if you need to approve a transaction that was blocked on your credit card but then you can’t do it until you update the app but your signal isn’t great, or you need to reply to a Facebook message but even though you can see the message the app refuses to function until you update. And a million other frustrating examples. I miss the days of things not changing out from under me without me having any say about it. I remember a time when I looked forward to updates because they brought interesting new functionality or, you know, actually fixed bugs. And when I didn’t like a new version of something, I could simply go back and reinstall the old version and keep using that.