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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Privacy weather app? (leminal.space)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to track hurricanes. All the apps I see collect all kinds of personal data. I just go to NOAA to see the advisories, but wondering if there is something better.

Edit: OS is Android 14 Edit: looking for radar (probably) or some other feature to track hurricanes (I don't know what tools there are besides radar, but if there's something else I'm interested).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

OpenWeatherMap seems promising, but their site uses Google analytics, have a lengthy privacy policy I'm not reading all of, and they have a bunch of paid subscription plans, so I'm rather pessimistic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hmm, the app on google play store says it collects no information and shares no information with third parties. I'm hopeful about this one.

---actually, looks like a nice general weather app, but doesn't have hurricane tracking features

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Having Google analytics means it's the same as a Google owned website. You shouldn't recommend such services for privacy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

What part of "I'm rather pessimistic" and complaining about their privacy policy sounds like a recommendation. It was more intended as a warning.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand this obsession with only taking advantage of free labor and giving nothing back. Seems anti-thetical to the entire FOSS movement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ah yes when I think of the FOSS movement I think of greedy corporations that only care about how much money they get out of their contributor's labor. FOSS has proven the exact opposite if anything: that economics are built on lies, and that people can and will produce useful projects without any economic gain.