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

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

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