Privacy
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
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.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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The fuck is a scrobble
That page doesn't mention scrobbling
I do. While I could've self-hosted it easily, I'm just consciously OK with it being public.
I scrobble to a self-hosted maloja instance. No fear of your data ever disappearing if a service goes down!
You could scrobble to listenbrainz as well. Why not supporting it?
My data stays with me. I support Musicbrainz itself plenty
Why would I care what other people are listening to?
If you listen to X and there is another guy listening to X and Y, one could recommend Y to you. Not only that, you actually have an influence which artist is at the top. You get a database of your listens and anyone, including you, can have a look at mass audio scrobble data.
I just started scrobbling with Listenbrainz. I do it through an anonymous account, and the scrobbling comes through my self hosted music server.
I’m trying it out to see if I like the recommendations. If I do I’ll consider it a fair trade off in privacy for now.
Why should I?