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minus-squarehumanamerican@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23arrow-down2·6 days agoHow do people with Android phones make a reservation?
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·6 days agoYou click a tel:// link and it calls the restaurant. Or you select the number and ask the phone to call it. AFAIK, the exact same way iOS does it. Just without using Apple services (nor Google services on this case).
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·6 days agoIt usually populates the phone number into the dialler, but doesn’t call them immediately. From what OOP’s tweet sounds like, you hit a link, and it begins dialling out immediately.
minus-squarejack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoI find the “Make Reservation link” that takes me to an automated sited like Open Table. If the only option is to call, I just don’t make the reservation.
minus-squareh4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·6 days agoEasy, google uses all of your personal information to manipulate you into going at a time of their choosing based on who pays them the most in ad dollars.
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 days agoIf it can’t be done with a simple web form that lets me pick an available time slot then I’ll make a reservation somewhere else.
How do people with Android phones make a reservation?
You click a
tel://link and it calls the restaurant. Or you select the number and ask the phone to call it.AFAIK, the exact same way iOS does it. Just without using Apple services (nor Google services on this case).
It usually populates the phone number into the dialler, but doesn’t call them immediately.
From what OOP’s tweet sounds like, you hit a link, and it begins dialling out immediately.
I find the “Make Reservation link” that takes me to an automated sited like Open Table.
If the only option is to call, I just don’t make the reservation.
Easy, google uses all of your personal information to manipulate you into going at a time of their choosing based on who pays them the most in ad dollars.
If it can’t be done with a simple web form that lets me pick an available time slot then I’ll make a reservation somewhere else.