Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users

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• lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is fucked, and I hope Dexcom gets sued into oblivion

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  • db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Class action, everyone will get $17, they make tenfold that amount by misusing and selling the data of the 99% that hit agree

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    • Nollij@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sorry, you (probably) agreed to binding arbitration. No class actions or even public spectacle allowed

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  • LostListener@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sometimes a dude just needs to pace outside a hotel at 5am

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• BooBees@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thanks for the post, I’ll let my diabetic family members know. I know this isn’t on my sisters radar yet.

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• ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think this capitalism thing is working great; don’t you? /s

  you best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias. you’re in one.

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• daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not that the problem isn’t a problem, because it is, but: I use the Dexcom G7 (as a type II) and for anyone concerned about this, you can get a receiver - a little device that will show the readings. It’s more convenient on the phone (although the phone app FUCKING SUCKS DONKEY BALLS…), but you don’t have to use the phone. With my insurance, it was $50, so that’ll vary, but it’s an option.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As soon as a terms and conditions show up that isn’t about open source licensing, you know the provider is an abusive fuck that will happily kill you if it would make them money

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pretty girl stirring up a fuzz linking her insta. Totally legit.

  Apps can’t trace browsing history, at least not on non-jailbroken iphones (showing in the screenshot). She’s feeding off digital illiteracy to drive up the likes of her channel.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No man, you’re the illiterate one here. The phone is irrelevant. I worked in the ad industry, this profile shit is real. Phones metadata simply means a device I’d so they can knowingly tie you to what the other massive personality graphs have on you rather than guessing. They don’t need your browsing history, they already have it. If not from a device then through the apps, if not the apps then the sites themselves.

    These companies already have a profile on all of us built. This is simply another company offering their data so huge data aggregators can directly connect it with everything else you do. Not only browsing, but gaming, social media, when you use your computer, travel sites, they even have presence detection in stores to track if their ad worked. This is already the reality we live in.

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    • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Worked in ads myself, seen the tech, developed it. This chick is baiting. If the glucose company is doing this they aren’t going to suddenly update their T&S blocking you out of their stuff, because they were already doing it, as you say they already have it. And not through the method she’s described, which is impossible, but indeed through the ever surviving meta and google cross site traching, which again is something iPhone is particularly good at blocking by rotating your ip for free for you.

      Anyway, I’m sure you’ll disagree and the outrage voting will want her story to be true, and she did so much work on her makeup and the lighting, but I guarantee she’s fishing for clicks.

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  • BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    BEGONE INCEL CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Look up how much data fucking McDonalds has on you, without you ever eating their food.

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    • Shortstack@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Holy shit, I searched about McDonalds data collection out of curiosity and found that they make 500+ page dossiers on their loyalty app customers

      This is some truly dystopian bullshit

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    • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is relevant how?

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  • CoconutLove@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah they can, they use fingerprinting.

    I do agree that she is pretty though. But, that isn’t really relevant here.

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  • daychilde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pretty girl stirring up a fuzz linking her insta. Totally legit.

    Found the fucking misogynist.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m so glad I don’t need one anymore. This is horrible.

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• n4ch1sm0@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People (justifiably) blame insurance companies for the bullshit of the medical industry, but the entirety of the of it from provider facilities, to pharmacy, etc. is happy to enable it to nickel and dime for as much money as possible.

  The price hikes of Medical services in the US functionally happen in a way similar to the cost of college education: Loaners and universities both benefit from rising cost of tuition, and enable each other to increase. Replace Loaners with Insurance, and universities with providers. The common denominator here is: For fucking profit.

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