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[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like Legal Streaming sites don't steal your data without you knowing

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Came here to say exactly this.

I'd trust the piracy sites more actually. We don't voluntarily give them our credit card and address.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Useful services like Real Debrid need a credit card, but nothing a virtual card (from Privacy.com or similar) can't solve. I think there's other ways to pay too.

Also, I'm pretty sure this ad is targeting IPTV services, which are almost all paid services. There's a big IPTV crackdown underway in several European countries at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You signed the agreement, now we get EVERYTHING! I recently enabled duckduckgo's app tracking protection and it has been eye opening. In the past 7 days it's blocked 4200+ tracking attempts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

12,627 blocked attempts for me in the last 7 days. The worst offenders are MLB app, and Sync. At least I'm using Sync. I haven't opened the MLB app in over a week, but it has still tried to report personal information about me up to 762 times per day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Ill trust 100 shady sites over a paid service that is obligated to spy on me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah they steal your data but you know for sure