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Same with restaurant or bars. More and more use some scummy third-party platform that requires an account, asks for more personal information than necessary and
by Nextgrid 5y ago
Same with restaurant or bars. More and more use some scummy third-party platform that requires an account, asks for more personal information than necessary and will no doubt use said information for nefarious purposes such as spam.
Similarly, since the pandemic, paper menus have been replaced by a stupid QR code that often loads a bloated page or PDF and may contain trackers. Doesn't help that phone service is usually terrible, and Wi-Fi (if it exists) has a captive portal with its own set of problems.
Worse, some venues actually did ordering over the mobile website, so what used to take 10 seconds of telling the barman what you wanted now takes a minute of trying to load a terrible website, filling out a form with way too much personal information, waiting for the payment to process, etc.
- sneak 5y agoCarry cash and leave your smartphone off and your payment cards at home (this is what I do). A lot of these systems fail open if you say "sorry, I don't have a SIM card in my phone" or "my service is shut off" or "I don't have a credit card". You also make it easier for the next person.
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