

Why can’t this be like that?
Because our highly corrupt, neo-liberal wannabe overlords hate the fact that we have basic privacy and data protection laws.
So every bit of digitalisation with government involvement has to be a non-funtional and totally insecure shit show so they can then lie and pretend that a) we need to remove data protection laws that are to blame for all problems and b) only big tech can do it properly so we really, really need to sell our private data to them (also c) <add random AI buzzword bingo gibberish> ).
You could at some time print out your ticket (depending on where you bought it) as a QR code . But that meant you wouldn’t need to use the DB App which is an insane security and privacy nightmare constantly breaking laws without any consequences. So they needed to limit that option and again lied about how that code can magically not save the info of who is the owner of that ticket (because… you know… basic cryptographic methods don’t exist…).
PS: Just so this isn’t just purely a rant, here’s a list of companies that still allow to get the Deutschlandticket as a chip card to avoid that horrific app.
Wer kennt sie nicht, die rechtsextremen Teile der Union in NRW, Hamburg oder Schleswig-Holstein und die viel gemäßigteren und weniger extremen und populistischen Landesverbände in Ostdeutschland oder Bayern… 🤣