Title. I’ve used forever, suspected they’re not great, but recently saw just how awful they truly are having partnered with Allstate and their data hoarding practices. The app hasn’t been granted permissions but that doesn’t stop them into uninstalled.
I need another foss or crowd-sourced fuel price app. A couple mentioned in online articles I can’t find shit on like Fuelmap, Stationpass, etc. Nothing in F-Droid but auto mando? Doesn’t quite fill the need.
I’m genuinely curious why people actually use it. Is it worth it for like $5 in savings on a fill, if that?
For the Chicagoland area, premium us generally $1-1.20/gallon more. Sometimes GB or the station itself would run a deal of $.25/gal off using the app. When I fill my 19.5gal tank, it’s easily saving $5 fill up, or about $20/mo or $280-300/yr.
At least it’s somewhat benefiting me by selling my data where usually there’s no perk at all. But when I learned just how bad, I’m definitely done. Basically you have no rights to your data, indefinitely, whether you’re a customer or not. And the Allstate partnership is a big no from me.