The cheek of McDonalds

I went to McDonalds for a burger & on the receipt is said. Fill in the survey online & receive a free meal. So i went online & the 1st thing you had to click the checkbox on was this. It is only a picture I took of it so quite safe.They want every detail from your P.C & you give them permission too. This should not be allowed.

I know they all send cookies etc but this is the 1st time i have seen anything like this.

Guess i'm not getting a free burger.

Steve.

So not a happy meal then Steve

HaHa very funny. . I would'nt care but i only go once a blue moon & the milk shake machines have not worked for over a year. Someone said they don't have any staff who will clean the intricate machine.

Steve.

No such thing as a Free Lunch !

Thought everyone knew that.

They get away with it because too many people don't realise how valuable data about them is.

It’s interesting to have a look at it from their perspective, Steve: **LINK**

https://smg.com

Look at all those major brands !!

As for the dreaded [Continue] button … at least McDonald’s is kinda doing the right thing by telling you, in reasonably plain language, what they are inviting you to accept.

Like you … I cringe at the thought, and would happily go without a ‘free’ Burger at that price !

I doubt if the I.C.O. would be interested, simply because McDonald’s is being so ‘open and honest’ and giving you a free choice. … But what we need from that body is more [and better] consumer-education.

MichaelG.

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Ref. ___ https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 18/10/2022 18:11:19

Am I the only person here who's never had food, or what passes for food, at McDonalds?

It’s been a long, long, time Bill … but I do recall going there once

MichaelG.

Maybe an old computer running XP (restored from a new install) using a disposable email address and connecting via a VPN. Would that be worth it for a free meal?

Add me to that list why people go mad for it is beyond me

Hi Bill,

You are not on your own.

Bear..........

I'm not mad for it, but when the pressure is on at work, I'm working into the evening and I haven't got lunch, its better than starving. Some of their recent efforts have been a lot more "real food" like.

It's a 'treat' apparently, rich people around here feed their kids on it judging by all the high end Merc's that use the drive in at weekends.

Why would you Steve I don't get it, apart from the fries, the coffee is disgusting, but hot, it must be the cup says so and the apple turnover thing will burn you.

I would try and keep it that way Bill, the trouble with junk food is that it does taste good, like drugs it is probably easier not start than give up.

Mike

I've never been in a McDonalds, Burger King, Wimpys or any other fast food shop

Don't know what you are talking about.

Cardboard chips, semi dry bread cake, bouncy rubber burger. What's not to like.

There apple pies are nice though.

Oh & the continual beep beeps from the machinery. As said don't often go there. We had actually gone for a Carvery to the local newish pub. We were told the Carvery had finished & only main menu available (Mega expensive) this was at 6:15 in the evening ???. They close at 11:00pm. Anyway that's how we ended up at the Colton food places. KFC. Pizza hut or Mc. we will not be going there again for a while.

Steve.

Fish & chips? Cornish Pasty? Bakers?

And I wonder how Bill justifies what passes for food if he's never tried it?

I take my grand kids, but I'm not tempted. Their so-called bacon butty is absolutely vile, I have tried it, but never again

All that data access for a free burger? Bit like selling ancestral lands for a string of beads...

Well, to be fair, every website you visit has to know your IP address, and some of that other info could quite conceivably be used to prevent (or at least detect) someone trying to, for instance, programmatically collect hundreds of free meals a day.

I do quite like the apple pies.

Rob (playing devil's advocate)