Imagine creating an account just so you can find out how to fix an issue you’re having and then instantly deleting your account after seeing all the nazi shit on the front page.
Call them on the telephone, and tell a human you would like to make a reservation. Telephone voice calls still work at every restaurant in my region. Also, get this, you can place take out orders that way at most places! It’s an amazing technology!
even worse is any deals are on downloaded apps. F that. The only good effect for me with that is its an effective way to identify and avoid corporate type institutions as they are top in using it.
You should vocalize it to the owner (or at least management) if you can. You’d be surprised what comes of it.
I did this once with a restaurant/bar owner, and she was very understanding. Once I took the time to explain how I didn’t wanna be subjected to everything that a setup like that brings, she empathized and actually got a standalone website.
Many people aren’t aware until you make em aware. And whether they feel the same or not from a consumer standpoint, at least they’ll know that there’s people out there who do care, and it affects business. And usually, if it affects business, it doesn’t matter what their personal feelings towards it are. A good business owner will be sure to adjust because they learned something new about the market.
They aren’t fully auth-gating the comments yet. You can view the first 5-8 top-level comments and 2-3 comments deep on each parent. Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
Overall, I find myself spending probably 1/5 of the time on a thread that I used to.
Same here. And when I do go there I don’t engage with it at all anymore. No posting comments, no posting threads, no up or down voting anything. On mobile I don’t use the site at all anymore since Boost for Lemmy got released. Fuck em.
Occasionally I’ll go to a subreddit on mobile browser and half the time I can’t view it due to mature content. If I really care then I’ll go to old.reddit but often I’ll just back out.
It’s because certain jurisdictions require companies to not allow access to potential 18+ content without getting consent and the user saying they are over 18. If there isn’t an age selection then in their T&Cs it’ll likely have something saying that creating an account confirms you are over 18.
You could just use a popup that says “Are you over 18 and willing to see NFSW content?” like most NSFW website do, but I guess that doenst generate enough money unlike forcing accounts does.
That’s not always the case because signing up and accepting a T&C makes it more binding of the user to say they are who they say they are. If they aren’t, then it’s close to fraud. Having just a “are you over” screen is not enough, since the user can easily lie and the company can get done for not having enough measures in place to stop that from happening.
I know in the end it’s all futile anyway because of many reasons. But for companies it’s checking off a box that gets a governing body off their back and making sure they have the right certifications to do what they need/want to do.
Since when does a reddit account require me to submit ID proving I am indeed 18+? I literally see no difference in reliability between requiring an account where one claims to be 18+ and a banner where one has to claim to be 18+. In both scenario’s you are relying 100% on user input.
Also the difference is in legislation, business certifications and responsibility.
Like I also said, in the end these measures don’t matter to end result of the user (other than now needing to make an account, but still able to lie through it) but they do matter when a company wants to work with another that require all of its partners to have specific certifications and whatnot.
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