Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
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Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#2Well that's convenient for them.
Imagine if other crimes could be paid in the product involved in the crime.
Moving company stole your furniture? Well they will move your furniture for free next time
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#3Well that's convenient for them. Imagine if other crimes could be paid in the product involved in the crime. Moving company stole your furniture? Well they will move your furniture for free next time
Class action lawsuits in the past have been settled with coupons.
There's even a wiki entry on the practice.
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#4These consumer facing apps always have the most barebone features (order from menu, earn/redeem loyalty points), yet they always seem to need a native app to deliver it instead of the mobile website.
Is it because customers are used to apps after a decade of "there's an app for that" marketing? Or is it because apps allow for always-on tracking that browsers don't allow?
On a website, the browswer will let you know each time the site is trying to track your location. In an app, you just need to give them permission once and they'll always use it.
For this reason, I use m.uber.com (if I have to use Uber at all).
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#5Well that's convenient for them. Imagine if other crimes could be paid in the product involved in the crime. Moving company stole your furniture? Well they will move your furniture for free next time
Class action lawsuits in the past have been settled with coupons. There's even a wiki entry on the practice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_settlement
At one point I supposedly had dozens of free concerts due me from Ticketmaster shenanigans. I was never able to actually find a show I wanted to watch though.
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#6These consumer facing apps always have the most barebone features (order from menu, earn/redeem loyalty points), yet they always seem to need a native app to deliver it instead of the mobile website. Is it because customers are used to apps after a decade of "there's an app for that" marketing? Or is it because apps allow for always-on tracking that browsers don't allow? On a website, the browswer will let you know e…
> Is it because customers are used to apps after a decade of "there's an app for that" marketing?
It's because we've conditioned an entire new generation of imbeciles with this as the bare minimum expectation. A web browser is deemed decidedly "old fashioned" to this group of people.
Case in point, I had a younger coworker openly mock and laugh at my use of a mobile website, "your app looks so old and archaic". He was right; it lacked the spinning animations, atrocious UX, and hoovering up of my contacts which has become the standard.
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#7Well that's convenient for them. Imagine if other crimes could be paid in the product involved in the crime. Moving company stole your furniture? Well they will move your furniture for free next time
Class action lawsuits in the past have been settled with coupons. There's even a wiki entry on the practice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_settlement
Lawyer gets a beachfront house. Class action participant gets coffee and a donut. Sounds normal.
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#8Sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#9Sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
Sounds like because it was one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THzXyk9Jh-s
Re: Tim Hortons offers coffee and doughnut as proposed settlement in privacy lawsuit
#10Well that's convenient for them. Imagine if other crimes could be paid in the product involved in the crime. Moving company stole your furniture? Well they will move your furniture for free next time
I've been in 2 different class action lawsuits about vehicles: first Honda Civic Hybrids (where the battery always died like right after warranty ended), and a Nissan Versa with CVT transmissions (same but the transmission). Both ended with a slight extension of warranty that was no longer helpful to me, and a voucher for a few thousand off the next vehicle I bought from them. I never bought another vehicle from them.