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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 76 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

[–] yokonzo 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did some digging, guess who runs bestreamwise.com? Give you a hint, it starts with C and rhymes with omcast

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

They don't like when someone other than them steals your data.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Is it the "Club of bird friends of Radagast"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This looks like a Bri'ish ad.

I did not realize Comcast was in Britain.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Comcast doesn't exist in the UK by name, but Sky does. Sky owns the website. Guess who owns Sky?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comcast also owns NBC Universal

[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 0 points 1 year ago
[–] yokonzo 3 points 1 year ago

Couldn't tell you the link there, but that's just what I found out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Best Ream Wise

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

streamsafely.com as well -- they're running legit propaganda campaigns now

means they're scared. they should be

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

Oh,, well then I guess there’s nothing wrong with this ad. /s

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

At the very least you'd think they'd get C:\> correct, but I guess whoever made that was probably on iOS or Linux.

I wonder what the CLI for "They" does. Pretty odd that it takes 8 arguments, let alone starting with an uppercase letter.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And that <\ at the end 👌

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A self-closening null tag. Perfection.

[–] TBi 21 points 1 year ago

I like that they try to scare you that the streaming websites will steal your info when the “legit” companies already do that…

[–] xantoxis 13 points 1 year ago

whatever it does, it's being run with stdin redirected from the root / directory, which can't be opened for reading, so it'll actually fail before the program even tries to launch.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, the companies that charge us are stealing our personal data too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And we even pay them to do so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Well, we pay for them the service, they just steal the data. Of course it's not legally stealing, because they told you they're going to do it on page 9,732 of the ToS that they forced you to accept before you can watch a video.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

opens website

Sky and its trusted partners need your permission to store and access cookies, unique identifiers, personal data, and information on your browsing behaviour on this device.

Uh huh... "Illegal streams" eh?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

I like how they fail to mention that legit streaming services just do that anyways as a matter of course.

[–] MataVatnik 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, you mean my personal data may ne compromised?

I swear it's probably not even that bad with illegal streams because they likely don't even have the resources to harvest your data at a massive scale.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They sure go out of their way to fill every pixel with ads, tho. If you so much breathe while the site's open, an ad tab opens.

Guess that's the counterbalance to being unable(?) to sell PID

[–] MataVatnik 3 points 1 year ago

Yeh that's how they make their money. They're essential clickfarms.

[–] unreachable 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you wouldn't ~~download~~stream a car!

[–] tdawg 9 points 1 year ago

Yes I would

[–] Rooty 19 points 1 year ago

At this point I trust "criminals" more than I trust giant media cartels. Copyright mafia can fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As the "techie" guy on the marketing team, this offends me on so many levels...

Everyone knows it's "C://>"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Google gets more out of my data than my torrent site.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Because the giant media streaming corporations definitely don't. Even though you pay them. Right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y~o~u w~o~u^l^d~n'~t d~o~w^n^l~o~a^d^ a c~a~r

[–] AMillionMonkeys 4 points 1 year ago
[–] killeronthecorner 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yokonzo 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wrong site, its the designers fault but the site is bestreamwise.com

[–] killeronthecorner 2 points 1 year ago

That was the point I was making.