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"The solution is high-resistance individual actions to address a situation with no societal benefit created by a company with more money than you can even begin to visualize."

This is the sort of thing one says to either feel very, very clever about themselves or because they don't want things fixed. Which is it?



I don’t consider using a browser or google maps or Apple Maps to search name and phone number of a restaurant to be high resistance.

If people want to give their money to middlemen because they are too lazy to call or use a search website, that is their problem. We don’t need laws around every single idiotic behavior people do, and if they find value in paying an app maker an extra $10, so be it. I’ll continue to do the common sense thing and spending 30 seconds calling them because I can’t afford $10 to door dash for what is a useless service to me.

How much money they may or may not have is irrelevant.


Apple Maps returns results from Yelp, which sometimes have GrubHub's interposed phone numbers in them. So your very own solution doesn't work.

You are falling for the okeydoke.

Break these assholes' backs and we are all in a better place.




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