Corporations certainly would bend to consumer demand if consumers were wise enough to boycott and make demands. But the question is whether consumer wisdom would ever advance on a scale to make that happen. I think I have little hope of seeing it in my lifetime.
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There are 35 million Mexican adults (38%) without a bank account. So living unbanked is at least an option, and more than ⅓ find it viable.
Nonetheless, it’s interesting to hear that all banks in Mexico are digital and that not a single one offers offline service. And that not a single digital bank offers logins w/out 2FA, or 2FA by SMS (which includes feature phones), or 2FA by using a card reader. If all that is true, consider posting about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org.
This is extremely reductive and oblivious to the actual realities of banking in various countries.
I think you will be hard-pressed to find a country that does not have a single bank that can serve those w/out smartphones. If you find such a country, plz post about it in !smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org and send me the link. Then we may be able to make a case for ppl in that specific country not being boot-lickers, if at the same time being unbanked is illegal.
If you think it’s easy to be “unbanked” then I would suggest that you try it yourself first.
I have been simulating an unbanked life for years now. 5 creditors are threatening lawsuits for non-payment after refusing my cash. One took me to court and it was an easy win for me. I just appeared without a lawyer and pointed to the law.
It’s also worth noting that unbanked is more extreme that simply choosing a bank that does not require a smartphone.
It’s banking:
https://slrpnk.net/post/28294479
The army of corporate boot lickers in the mobile phone context is largely composed of people who think banking on a smartphone is wise, despite the attack surface and despite the bank being empowered to monitor their customers more closely. Banking apps are the most significant culprit for gluing people to Android.
We may never see the day when more than 5% of the population realises the importance of FOSS enough to shake free of their addiction to convenience.
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That’s not a boycott. That’s the normal market working as designed. If you love the coffee but refuse to patronise them, then you are boycotting.
Seems like it could be a non-stop game of whack-a-mole. Even if you ban accounts they can just create more. If you do a good job of the baby sitting, they can use even more accounts to mask patterns. I don’t see how an admin can prevail.
Disabling down votes would prevent the practice of down voting to suppress. But probably the most effective is to disable voting entirely.
Down votes have a suppressive effect. Views and engagement drop when the votes are <1. The initial votes are important because they influence the votes that follow. My Tyranny of voting thread gives some detail.
My phone is AOS 5. It auto-detects captive portals and auto launches the browser. From there, just like there are countless ways to fuck up a webpage, there are countless ways to fuckup a captive portal webpage.
Web developers are profoundly incompetent on a widespread scale. I think a lot of it is done by kids who just want to play with the latest HTML frills and latest JavaScript constructs. These are not well-trained professionals who understand the problem of rapidly changing “standards”. They are not taught about backwards and forwards compatibility, and that the latest language frills should be avoided (or guarded by conditionals based on user agent strings). These same undisciplined hackers are apparently writing captive portals.
There are 4 interesting attributes (which makes Fediseer quite useful because no other dataset captures this level of detail):
- open_registrations
- approval_required
- email_verify
- has_captcha
When running select open_registrations,approval_required,email_verify,has_captcha from FSnodeTbl where open_registrations = 0 | sort -u`, we get all varieties of combinations:
0|||
0||0|
0|0||
0|0||0
0|0|0|0
0|0|0|1
0|0||1
0|0|1|0
0|0|1|1
0||1|
0|1||
0|1||0
0|1|0|0
0|1|0|1
0|1||1
0|1|1|0
0|1|1|1
AFAICT, the value of open_registrations is not implied by the other variables. It seems to be an independent variable that should mean just what it describes on the face of it.
And if we consider just cases where open_registrations is true, there are fewer combinations, strangely, but still it’s independent of approval_required (2nd column):
1|||
1|0||
1|0||1
1|1||
1|1||1
Sounds like Paypal, who is “not a bank”, but who operates on the basis that you must link a bank or interact with a bank to do transactions. But you say unbanked people can use it? How do you get cash loaded onto it?
I suppose it’s still far from being something I could find useable because apps that reject rooted phones would be closed-source (read: untrustworthy; misplaced control).
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Now it’s a 404 error. I think I would have mentioned that before, so I guess it vanished without a trace out the blue. All data is lost.