It's odd to see conservatives: (1) pick up the "considered harmful" meme and (2) get so indignant about something private enterprise does. (Of course now "conservatism" is all about having a good sense of the little resentments of everyday life... If it wasn't for those "press 1 to hear this in Spanish" messages the U.S. would be run by Leon Trotsky, Che Geuvera and Nancy Pelosi right now)
For that matter I'm a little amused that it took a year and a half for this to become a populist issue.
What really annoys me is the situation of scanning QR codes on Android because it's hard to give people instructions to download a QR code reader. You can't just tell them to scan this QR code. You have to tell them to go to Google Play, and any search for a QR reader creates results that look like
(1) SCAM
(2) SCAM SCAM
(3) SUPER SCAM
(4) GREAT SCAM OF 2019
(5) SCAM 2023 SCAM
and so forth. It's an unholy marriage of phone maker's and carriers "don't give a damn" attitude and Google's dependence on the scamvertising model.
For that matter I'm a little amused that it took a year and a half for this to become a populist issue.
What really annoys me is the situation of scanning QR codes on Android because it's hard to give people instructions to download a QR code reader. You can't just tell them to scan this QR code. You have to tell them to go to Google Play, and any search for a QR reader creates results that look like
and so forth. It's an unholy marriage of phone maker's and carriers "don't give a damn" attitude and Google's dependence on the scamvertising model.