This is beyond insane. 'An approved device'. So, my device has to be approved by a fucking company. This is where all this bullshit has led. Companies now get to dictate the life of every person in the world. I'm going to be spending a lot of time away from the internet moving forward. Thank God we have Lemmy.

IIRC Anubis uses cookies so that the website doesn't test you again for X amount of time.

edit From the Anubis docs: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/redirect-domains (behind Anubis)

you should be able to use the pattern module for that

I know a few people that live in rural USA and tap the ground for free water. Waste water from shower goes on random land and brown water into septic and get emptied when full.

Super cheap compared to my city water.

On the flip side they have complete shit internet access while I got fiber.

They have to drive a ways (1 hr) for groceries and I got like 5 within 10in drive. Hell I could walk 20min to a convenience store or two.

I just scanned it and now the entire nation of Bangladesh has my phone number

My entry level job requires that I use 3 separate apps. How do you get around that?

Not even way down, actually provided. You dont pay for wheelchair accessibility or braille on the signs.

I mean we all pay for it with taxes and increased prices, but the wheelchair user isnt forking out personally.

And then google will sya "we think about the users security!!! That's why i will not let you install apps outside the playstore"
Fuck Shitoogle

https://sinceyouarrived.world/

It must be illegal

Your QR code scanner showns you the URL before you choose to open it, right? So I don't really get the comparison to short URLs. As with any normal link, you get to see the link before you choose to "click" the QR code after you scan it.

They use your pc for a ddos attack every time you visit. Actual malware.

The great Chinese achievement last century was lifting hundreds millions out of people poverty. That wont be everyone and some will still be living rough.

Ah, yes, dark patterns are okay because they can be worked around. Got it.

Probably by not having an entry level job. The companies love to make money off people any way they can, but potentially losing a highly skilled, long term trained employee would be worse than losing the income from the apps' data they can sell.

I don't understand, why is a QR code a dark pattern?

Edit: I have now read the entire Wikipedia page on dark patterns, I didn't find one that would match.

Congrats on your million dollars though!

Welcome to the resistance

Because a qr code is not a url. You might get one flashed, but it's just like a 40 page eula: the amount of people who are going to pay attention is an order of several magnitudes smaller.

We start here:
You see an URL -> if it's a shortened URL, that's problematic, if it's a normal URL, it's ok you can click it

Now we add a QR code to the equation:
You scan a QR code -> You see an URL -> if it's a shortened URL, that's problematic, if it's a normal URL, it's ok you can click it

But you don't agree.

Why is adding the "You scan a QR code" step making a difference? You compare looking at an URL to reading a 40 page EULA, I don't think 1 line of text is comparable to 40 pages of text, but let's go with it. Some people won't read it, I definitely agree with that. If they click links without reading then, then they click links without reading them. Again, why is adding the step of scanning a QR code before the link shows up, making anything different? You can read and choose to click it or not all the same, whether the link appeared due to scanning a QR code, or whether it was on web page.