@peemee Even worse, the Turks stole the noodles that go with them from China.
// @streakmachine
@phoneboy It will be interesting to see what comes next, but assuming that noncommercial radio stations that do not carry conventional advertising will somehow insert advertising into the app seems somewhat counterintuitive. If they do, I have no doubt that someone will spot the opening in the market and write another app. Thus ever with capitalism.
As for collecting information on users, I can selectively turn off permissions if needed. I'm already a paid user of the app, with web access and a PocketCasts account that syncs everywhere, so they already know what I listen to and how often I listen. I realize this feeds into a larger conversation about what aren't they telling me and what are they doing with this information, but if I was that paranoid I'd shred my Starbucks card and never leave the house. Or I'd go live in a log cabin fifty miles outside of Fairbanks where there's no cell reception and build a camouflage net over the house to block the spy satellites.
Life is too damn short for that. YMMV.
// @JeremyCherfas @hazardwarning
@phoneboy I'm having a hard time getting exercised by this. I'd have to be pretty deep into the paranoid end of the spectrum to be worried about a consortium of public radio folks getting into bed with some independent-minded Aussies. Now, if they were selling to Rupert Murdoch, then yeah, the world would be coming to an end, but this? Meh.
// @hazardwarning
@matigo Mastodon is basically GNU Social with some extra goodies, from what I understand. I know it interacts with GNU Social networks to some degree.
@tewha Real Men™ drink Forgotten Cold Coffee anyway, because it still gets the job done. So do Real Women™. :-)
// @streakmachine @literary