Starbucks is the king of app gamification at the cost of your data

I'm a Starbucks mobile app user, and I'm not going to stop any time soon. Even before a pandemic came along and forced me to stay inside, I went to Starbucks nearly every day. As somebody who has worked from home for the past four years, I relished any excuse to leave my apartment and walk around. Since Starbucks was the closest coffee shop to me, I became a regular, with the baristas knowing my two orders once they saw me enter the store. Part of my reliance on Starbucks was that it was a place...