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This is a gen x complaint. Boomers would just ask their kids to set it up because they can't get it to work. Gen x realizes what is going on and that it is bullshit to need an account for a fucking lightbulb.

Not wanting to be exploited by tech coorporations, technological literacy, is not a boomer thing.

How is this a boomer complaint? Why does everyone need my email and info?

For me it's that I don't want short form video anywhere near my view.

I went to a bar for a drink the other day. They had TVs all over the place which I normally don't care for but it looked like golf or something I could just ignore. After I ordered my drink I realized how wrong was.

It was actually some weird short form video TV channel. They croped the 16:9 screen into a 1:1 square with moving neon lines in the "empty space" where there was no video. Each video was about 5 seconds long and showed brainless content of people using a Rube Goldburg machine or doing card tricks and other such nonsense.

Once I realized what was happening it was too late as I got my drink and I felt compelled to finish it and pay. I tried to ignore the 5+ screens in my view but they were too big and eye-catching to really ignore. I kept catching myself looking at one of the screens after a minute or so. I felt like I was getting serotonin raped between ads.

Eventually I moved to sit by a window and stare at a tree. I'll never go back to a bar like that again.

@The_Picard_Maneuver I once bought a TV sound bar that wanted me to download an app, make an account and give it detailed location information just to use it as a wired speaker. I returned it.

That's my pet hate with everything.

A mouse doesn't need an account. Just let me install the shit and configure it you fucks.

Bro we need to track you in every way possible so we can sell you even more shit, what’s the big deal?

The Olympics required four apps. Five if you count Visa Go, which just outright didn't work. All of them want you to make accounts and send you shit.

• Itinerary, account optional
• Tickets, account required even though the tickets were on the phone
• Transport, account required even though the tickets were in the
• Metro app, for which it told you to NOT DELETE THE DATA BECAUSE THE TICKETS ARE ONLY ON THE DEVICE

No, lightbulb, I won't give you my location

(actually happened)

Fighting side by side with a boomer?
What about side by side with a friend?

That's not even a boomer complaint. Zoomer here. I fucking hate how everything needs an account. I recently started cleaning up my mail box and this shit makes that nigh impossible. I especially hate it when it's just a shitty novelty site, if it needs an account, you bet your ass I ain't ever using it, piss off!

"Or sign in with your Facebook account"

No, this isn't Facebook!

The real solution: Buy your own domain name, and make a catch-all email address. Every account gets a new address with that account’s company in the email. Target is target@[your domain].[tld]… The benefit is that you can see exactly who is selling your info to spammers, and easily burn those accounts. You start getting spam sent to that target address? Congrats, now you know Target has sold your info and you can set a rule to automatically send any target@ emails straight to your trash. Also, get a damned password manager so every account has a unique password.

Create a fake persona. This persona has a fake name, birthday, favorite food, first pet, etc… Memorize everything about this fake person, or even just make a note about them in your phone. And none of it is real. This fake person’s info is used for all of your signup info. So when shitty fucking companies get hacked and lose all of your info, the hackers never actually got any of your info. And if you ever see spam addressed to that fake persona, you know you can immediately discard it.

Between the catch-all email address and the fake persona, you’re basically immune to all of the typical ads, phishing, data breaches, etc…

I was going to buy a really sweet drone. Then I watched the Getting Started video and there was an app and an account thing, and I realized the second they shut down the service, that drone would be a paperweight.

I'm back to building my own because I'd like to use it for more than a year or two.

Far from being a boomer, but 100% agree with it.

It is sad to think there are people who don't think this is ridiculous and are just accepting that.

That's not a boomer thing. Boomer will be like "sure, I'll give you all the informations you want, even the name of my dog and my credit card number".

How else are they going to email you 20 times about changes to their privacy policy?

And then the inevitable email when they have to admit that all the data they gathered on you was stolen and that there is nothing you can do about it.

I wish we could go back to the 90s as far as this shit is concerned.

Just take it out of the box and it works.

Send in a registration post card if you feel like bothering, but thats about it.

I am so sick of everything, especially shit that has no conceivable need to be online, not only demanding an internet connection, but demanding accounts and shit too.

Cause you know why they do it. They want to track you, harvest your data, and monetize it. Its not about selling you a good product, its about selling you a good listening device.

That's not really a boomer complaint, that's just a pro-privacy pro-internet security kind of complaint. Everyone of all ages hates having to have an account for everything and its mother

WHAT DOES GOD NEED WITH A STARSHIP?!?!?

I wrote an email app called Port87 for this. Every account gets its own address, and everything to that address goes in its own label.

Create an account so you can do anything with your purchased device? That's just plain abusive. How about: thank you for using your hard-earned, post-tax funds and choosing our product. Let's get you going as fast and easily as possible, then go as far as we can to make things work before having you stop and create an account?

Only reason to create one is so you can save a persistent context for multiple types of interaction. Support multiple users, or different mobile devices, maybe groups of devices. But for a single device, out of the box, no sign up should EVER be needed.

Unless the company's priority is to hoover all your usage data, analyze it to death, invade your privacy, and sell it for profit.

It's called data mining

Meanwhile in my password manager: 727 login accounts 😶

People abbreviating random words when there's literally no need to.

My lightbulbs don't require an account, I just get up from the couch and turn them off, has been working perfectly for decades 😘👌

grocery stores trying to get me to sign up for their reward program or whatever

Im surprised Aldi hasnt completely taken over the entire country by now because of how they skip all the bullshit

its a grocery store. i walk in, i buy food, i leave

could not be simpler.

My local Kroger, however, has automated price cards that adjust to scalp their customers during high-traffic periods.

this is a practice that should be rewarded via targetted arson of distribution centers until our demands are met

oops autocorrect lmao

i meant this is a practice that should be outlawed via legislation that follows our due processes

None of the boomers I know care about this and some even have duplicate accounts due to forgetting about them.

Heh. This was me when I was shopping for a new Sonic toothbrush. WHY ARE THRER APPS?!?!?? Seriously though, spending $100 for the (questionable) quality toothbrush that had zero need for my info. I don’t want stats. I don’t want to know the battery percentage.

I don't want my computer to treat me like an idiot, it's my computer let me run whatever commands I want.