Went into *two* restaurant+bars recently & was told "we have no paper menus due to COVID; use your phone to get the web menu". It's disturbing that a B&M business just assumes everyone has a smartphone & they're willing to marginalize those who do not. One of the bars outsourced to a site that outsourced to #Cloudflare so the online menu discriminated further against Tor users.
@resist1984 Restaurants are being pushed or tricked into datafication. See the company innerspace.io and their video showing how they can identify each diner from their phone's WIFI ID. Doordash is aiming to be the Amazon of restaurants, turning their literal cash registers into PII they can abuse and use like Amazon does. Many small restaurants do not realize the trap and will be gone in a few years. I refuse to use my phone to order food and will only pay cash.
@krock wow that's eye opening. I sacrifice the airmiles to pay cash as well, because we need people to fight on the cash side of the #WarOnCash. You inspired me to look for a way to randomize Android MAC addresses. There's an app but sadly it needs root (and the app has been abandoned): https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.moosd.netghost
@resist1984 #Grapheneos has Mac randomization built in and has WIFI and Bluetooth scanning off by default. I need to research more on latest WIFI standards before being comfortable not keeping my phone in a faraday sleeve all the time. Damn the world we live in sometimes..
@krock If I'm with plastic-only people, I either pay the whole bill in cash or I insist on separate bills, just to ensure that my portion of costs are paid in cash. #Visa offered a $10k award to small businesses that go cashless a few years ago, so it's important for restaurants to have metrics that show a portion of sales reliant on cash.