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Why does Tmobile force customers to use phone app rather than browser?
So apparently the team of imbeciles and as likely as not, chinese communists at tmobile are forcing users to install a phone app in order to perform simple configuration of a wireless internet router...
A forced solution is about control as much as economics. For those users that received some of the first Arcadyan gateways some users might remember they did HAVE browser access. Then came the firmware upgrade and T-Mobile broke it and removed administrative access from the Arcadyan gateway. For a time it was common to see users posting questions about why does the browser interface on the Arcadyan gateway not work. Remember when! With the Sagemcon gateway they were more careful about it and crippled the web feature before releasing the gateways. Americans need to stay AWAKE as if you quietly allow choice to be taken away in a quiet manner before you know it… it is gone. It is just a cancer too many people are allowing to grow and spread. I believe it is very important to stay aware and not quietly permitir the forced path to become the norm.
saymyusername wrote:So apparently the team of imbeciles and as likely as not, chinese communists at tmobile are forcing users to install a phone app in order to perform simple configuration of a wireless internet router.
This as opposed to simply connecting via browser from a closed network, as has been possible for 20+ years on most standard routers.
The reason? Think about it. Any time you install an app on your phone you potentially allow any of the following:
Access to your identity. Your contacts. Your messages, photos and other files. your camera and microphone. Your device id, call information, any accounts configured on your phone, log files, internet traffic, the list goes on and on. Anything you can imagine your phone is capable of, and more importantly, things that even you CANNOT IMAGINE your phone is capable of. Because the people who are CREATING the technology are 25 steps ahead of you.
Ask yourself what hidden permissions the app has on your phone...and if you are honest with yourself, the answer will be...YOU DON'T KNOW. Because you can't review the app code, and even if you could, you couldn't understand it.
But then here's the big one, and this is the kicker (keep this in mind when some $3-an-hour, script-reading, call center hack at Tmobile attempts to gaslight you by saying there's absolutely no concern or risks for you to install their app): Once installed, you've given the app access to the ANY FUTURE CONTROLS tmobile (or whoever they might eventually sell out to) might wish to add. Because going forward you will be constantly forced to do an 'upgrade', which enables who knows what.
And keep in mind that many (most?) major companies have been infiltrated at some level by implants from places like the chinese communist party, the WEF, and other nefarious organizations that intend you harm.Think about that when Tmobile (or any organization) forces you to install their app in order to perform basic functions that can traditionally be done (and often more easily) without an app.
So you don't use any apps on your phone? What makes TMO app more likely to have malicious code/intent?
