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Sure, you could also just go to a supermarket. If you don't know what to expect, why risk it?
It's not that big of a risk to be honest. People did it all the time before the internet. Some people are not pathologically risk adverse and might even enjoy being surprised.
My fuck-you-right-back response is I don't sign up and give up using the app. I had an instagram account and deleted it years ago. I don't want a new one. Sadly instagram is sign up only, so good luck to them and good bye.
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You can still go to the restaurant to eat presumably they'll have some paper menus in there, or QR's or whatever
I've actually stood up and left restaurants when their QR menu sends me to IG.
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I've actually stood up and left restaurants when their QR menu sends me to IG.
Hahahaha I was picturing this idea before asking tbh... We sometimes get some customers who hate the QR's, or claim not having phone/signal/whatever. I'll lend them my phone to check...
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You can still go to the restaurant to eat presumably they'll have some paper menus in there, or QR's or whatever
> presumably they'll have some paper menus Increasingly commonly, that's a "nope". If I don't have an internet-connected device capable of dealing with a QR code about my person, eating out is no longer for me. Perhaps it's time to go back to the old people's home, the nurse has been searching for hours.
It is annoying when a transaction that for ages has been all-paper gets bumped into the panopticon.
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It was how restaurants worked for a long time. Of course, if you prefer the predictability of seeing the menu before you get there, that’s your preference, fair enough. But I wonder if you might miss out on some places run by cooks who put all their talent into cooking, and none into technology. Could be some good stuff…
Talent isn’t a zero sum game. It takes next to no effort to throw your menu as a photo on google maps for example.
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You can still go to the restaurant to eat presumably they'll have some paper menus in there, or QR's or whatever
> presumably they'll have some paper menus Increasingly commonly, that's a "nope". If I don't have an internet-connected device capable of dealing with a QR code about my person, eating out is no longer for me. Perhaps it's time to go back to the old people's home, the nurse has been searching for hours.
What kind of dystopian city do you live in? QR codes are on the decline again¹, fortunately.
1: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/may/23/off-the-menu-wh...
I don’t think this is a dark pattern per se. You don’t expect to walk into any restaurant and get free food. With meta products, you pay for content by being tracked. If you refuse to sign in, they refuse to show you content. It’s simple.
It’s other people’s content and they should make it available in places other than Meta.
All these Big Tech platforms should be DEMOTED to hosting trailers and teasers that link back to people’s sites where they host their own videos and community.
Why do you think people don’t just do that? Oh because the Big Tech companies have the infrastructure and no one stuck around long enough to build a good enough open source alternative, that’s why!
Until now … https://qbix.com/communities
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It was how restaurants worked for a long time. Of course, if you prefer the predictability of seeing the menu before you get there, that’s your preference, fair enough. But I wonder if you might miss out on some places run by cooks who put all their talent into cooking, and none into technology. Could be some good stuff…
Talent isn’t a zero sum game. It takes next to no effort to throw your menu as a photo on google maps for example.