A French blogger shares their strategy of claiming to not have a smartphone as a way to avoid forced app installations in daily life, from restaurants to household appliances. They argue that mandatory app usage assumes excessive prerequisites—battery, data, storage, accounts—and notes they had to argue against 18 app installations in just one year.
Background
Growing frustration with app-ification of everyday objects and QR-code-dependent services has sparked a digital minimalism movement among some consumers.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 3, 2026 at 02:20 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10