I never understand the press they get. As someone that doesn't want to have a chat with a stranger about everything I buy, self-checkouts are amazing. I don't consider it extra work. OP should look at the history of supermarkets. We didn't use to pick items off the shelves either.
"I don't think I can forgive you for that."
"...but I'd like to try."
Sorry, I do understand that, I was just thinking of an improvement that might help. I thought having the same phone number might work too but that gets dodgier.
I think there must be a way to deliver on the value of the app without it being the privacy/public exposure nightmare it sounds like. Speaking naively, perhaps a setup where you can only speak about a person with those who have actually matched with them.
There is this (slow moving, far off) EU project that hopes to bring a new standard. It doesn't read like they've got a complete solution at all, but the principles are comforting at least!
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
Oh haha sorry!
Sorry, it just read to me like you're presuming a old person that struggles with tech would be a woman. I should've left a more constructive comment.
Fair enough, thanks for calling me out. I'm glad it's not as bad as I thought. The article title threw me off as well.
January 2018 for the UK, wild that the US is so behind that even California is only just getting to it.
It makes sense, but what would be even more valuable for real estate is if we gave up on crampt open plan offices and give people some space 😅
I don't want to side with Spotify but if it helps I'm pretty sure this would only happen for people on the free tier. Card payments can be used to verify age.