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The Brachistochrone Problem

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Zomato - How To Ruin A Great App

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From: Great Food Guide Used to be an avid Zomato user. Had reviews, followers, collections, the whole shebang. Without even trying really!  Zomato was the perfect place for researching and reviewing good places to eat at. The ultimate food guide. Sounds great, right? Except now you can do almost none of the things that made Zomato great to begin with. Warning Signs... It probably started with the push to use the app. The site kept pushing you to install the app when you were trying to look up restaurants. But Zomato needs access to neither my location nor my camera to be a food guide. So, not installing the app on my phone. Then the ratings started becoming suspect. Barely average places had thousands of ratings with aggregates of 4.9 etc. Zomato said it was vetting them, but c'mon! Let's get real. Next could no longer create collections, or even modify one's existing collections. May need to install the app for that. But again, that ain't gonna happen for rea