It is the epitome of @pluralistic #enshittification that to access all the features of my breast pump, I have to install an app on my phone AND create an online user account 💀
… like why the hell do they need that data?
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@mclare @pluralistic Seems to me that a breast pump has only one job.
@elronxenu @mclare @pluralistic well, two jobs for most people
@elronxenu @mclare @pluralistic @altonbrown As much as Alton Brown kvetches about unitaskers in the kitchen, I think he'd give a breast pump a pass. And maybe even a burr grinder for coffee.
@elronxenu @mclare @pluralistic track the date, the rate and duration of every pump, along with the quantity collected, to extrapolate the expected end of nursing, so that the mother can be presented with the appropriate* advertisements.
*Could be Gerber’s baby food coupons, or 😬 healthcare for mother or baby, based on timing and rate-of-change of milk flow.
Yikes. This is creepy AF. Do not get a pump with internet access or phone app usage.
EVER.
@mclare @pluralistic most fitness trackers - and I’m not even taking about “free” apps but devices you pay for - also won’t give you the data; they require accounts for who knows what nefarious purposes. Needless to say, I won’t buy one.
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Account - forget about it, unless I can use a fake email, the data is not particularly private, and I do not pay anything.
Phone number to create an account - go **** yourself, provincial spy from the 19th century.
@nerdbear @mclare @pluralistic
I bought a simple lock to install on a cabinet door. When it arrived I reviewed the instructions before installing it in the cabinet and discovered I had to activate the lock via a website that required an account set up with my email address before it would ever lock. The description on the website had not included this requirement. I got a full refund for the lock and found another lock that I could use with no stupid connection to the cloud.
