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Thoughts on stremio? And more generally, when should I worry about trackers? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Dop@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi,

I've seen stremio pop up a few times in my feed recently and decided to give a look. It's seems like I could use it with torrentio, but my concern is that the apps comes with a few trackers, amongst which 3 facebook trackers (share, login & analytics).

I don't know much about trackers, how they work, and what I should worry about, so I mostly try to avoid them, but could someone here tell me if I should worry about these facebook trackers (I don't use fb, but since it's pretty much the Devil itself...), and maybe suggest resources on how to get informed on trackers, what they do, and when to worry about it?

Thank you for your help.

Cheers,

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[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I use it, but only because I couldn't find anything else that works with streaming torrents. If there is something that is fully open source and less "shady", I'd love to hear about it

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use stremio as well. But I also know Deluge has a plugin allowing you to stream a selected file from a torrent and it works with vlc

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But there I'd first need to search for a torrent and do everything manually, right? Stremio is just soo convenient, I don't want to go back haha

[–] fluxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exactly. Which is also why I use it as well :)

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

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