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

submitted 2 months 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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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Me? I wouldn't use it, mainly because their featured channels are FB, Insta, Twitter, & Reddit. How did FB, Insta, Twitter, & Reddit get a front seat? What exchange is being made for the quid pro quo to be completed? Additionally, their 'Privacy Policy' and what data they collect leaves a lot to be desired from a privacy standpoint. It is opensource, which is a plus, but in my mind, that doesn't stop them from mining your data.

These are my opinions. There are many like them, but these are mine.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it is open source, why not delete blobs?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I do not know of the inner machinations of Stremio, nor do I possess the where with all to alter it's code. If that is knowledge you could share with the OP, that makes Stremio compatible with privacy, security, and anonymity, then please do share.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Now that I know more about blobs, I hear they are encrypted. I wonder what that looks like when you open code in an IDE. So like, maybe you can read it until a certain line, and then it turns into some type of encoded gibberish. I wonder if you could delete the gibberish and it still work.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

binary-blobs_binary-blobs-everywhere_meme.jpg

Seriously though, if it's not fully open source, you can't even start to trust it.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The customization of your UI is very unintuitive. Worse than Kodi actually. You have to set up things in a particular order as you cannot reorder it after. Also some features require self hosting a server whereas Kodi doesn't.

Besides that, @irmadlad@lemmy.world makes good points.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Worse than Kodi

Wow! Now that's saying something.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago (1 children)

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

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

🥲

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

If you use any adblocker, inbuild or as extension, eg.uBO, AdGuard or Adblock Plus extension and apart eg. Portmaster, or InviZible Pro on Mobile, it's irrelevant if the page use tracking cookies, because they get blocked.