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Why we're so sure our phones are listening

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Now here’s the thing: I’ve been paranoid about my privacy since 1999. So in 2010, I was already taking extreme measures to block trackers, browse anonymously, delete cookies at least every day, never use my real name online for any reason whatsoever and only use throwaway accounts.

Yet you still used google? There are a lot of ways to fingerprint a browser, and it wouldn't surprise me if some systen information was still freely available to websites in 2010. With just an ip and websites you visit often (which they do if you search through google of course) they can already do a lot.

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Plex price gauging any users they have left

I tried Plex once, before I knew about jellyfin. I just wanted an open-source self-hostable media server with my own media.

When I tried it, after installing Plex, I was presented with a login for a Plex hosted account. Iirc that was optional and I skipped it, after that came the nags for Plex pass. Piss off. That's exactly the opposite of what I wanted out of something like jellyfin.

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Who like me? T_T

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I'm all for getting off anything meta, but come on. Someone not wanting to move to a chat service that's probably less convenient for them does not make them a "so called 'friend'" lmao.

If you're actually losing friends over this, that's quite sad.

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Oh yeah and apparently you can't stream remotely without a subscription either? If it were a feature they had to spend time on I'd still not want to use it, but I'd understand at least.

From the application's point of view, there is no difference between internet and intranet access. I just saw that downloading the media you already own, using your own infrastructure, requires an even more expensive subscription.

How tf did people stick around with this shit for so long.

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Weather App of Choice?

Mainly breezy weather.

I also installed the KNMI (royal Dutch meteorological institute) weather app recently, because some other popular Dutch weather services tried to sue them for making their free app too good.