Sixt sent me a message encouraging me to check in early for my car rental. But to do so, I have to consent to a biometric face scan that their third-party contractor keeps on file. No thanks.

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        Exactly. Blows my fucking mind.

        Tried to explain to my family how to opt out of Meta AI in WhatsApp and why it was a good idea.

        Wasted my time.

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          How do you do that? I haven’t used it much since that came in, and you couldn’t opt out at the time.

          You can mute it but can’t get rid of it, as far as I know.

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            You have to do it thread by thread. Tap on the chat group and look for “advanced privacy options”

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            I love how doing that, people can’t save media automatically (which I am fine with), export chat AND disable meta AI

            How about a fucking toggle “GO FUCK YOURSELF AI”???

            I don’t care about crappy meta AI, I don’t want that available but still be able to export my chat if needed (never did) and let others save automatically my media from our chat. TF is this bullshit? LOL

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        Leopard: “I am going to eat you”

        Everyone: agree all

        Just replace the leopard with capitalism. Everyone’s a cuck.

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      Several years ago Universal Studios wanted my thumbprint to go through a gate. I politely refused, people I was with were annoyed, employee acted like me not giving my thumbprint was a hassle.

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        Did they let you in without the thumb print or were you left out then?

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          I went to Universal last year and I don’t remember having to give any fingerprint.

          I do remember having to do that for Disney ages ago though. Like, well over a decade ago. I didn’t think much of it at the time.

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              I think you overestimate the efficacy of the vast majority of IT systems. My wife worked on a thumb print scanner and they never store more than a day’s worth of data before getting overwritten because why would you.

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    I’ve never rented a car so I’m curious, what benefits does checking-in early actually get you? I assume you still need to talk to a person and go through the whole upselling thing they’re notorious for. Accidental damage cover? Fuel cover? Rain cover? Excess cover? Excess cover excess cover?