Just looked into #Freely TV and it's a #privacy nightmare. This is the free internet streaming version of UK #Freeview, but with privacy ripped out.
They collect a bunch of personally identifying data (device, freely ID, IP) and record all your viewing.
They use and share that data with third parties without your consent under the loophole of "legitimate interest" which is like a cancer that no ordinary individual can challenge.
So I will never use #FreelyTV. It's a lie to say it is free
Dear Friends I am not writing a #program to:
- 'Confiscate' money, influence and #lobbying power from the usual suspects...
- Enable people to stand to gather and #freely speak, interact and present #ideas
- Teach useful skills such as kicking Nazis into the useless area
- How to live better, longer and more #radically...
Maybe I should be...
Nah too feeble minded and in need of protection from the #enabled and #empowered.
https://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Rebel
More details on request. But not from me...
@Ryanteck could try ditching the aerial by using Freely (Freeview over ip)
I have the Netgem Pleio streaming stick and it works pretty well. That does need one unit per TV though.
The included gamepad works well with steam link app too (it has play store).
The 4 elements of valid #consent in the #GDPR are: #Freely given, #Specific, #Informed and #Unambiguous.
In #sensitive situations #explicit consent is #required. Read more: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2026-04/edpb-summary-consent_en.pdf
#law
If only those handy #edpb guidelines were present in 2018!
Freely to Launch Spotlight Channels as Commercial Opportunity for Connected TV Partners
#TV #TVNews #BBC #Channel4 #Channel5 #Freely #International #ITV #Unitedkingdom
My new TV streaming box (Manhattan Aero for Freely) has just been delivered.
It's plugged in and working.
I'm excited to see it in action.
But
"Downloading the Latest Software"
Aghhhhh!
At no point before now had I considered that #TV would just end, becoming online #boxsets with forced advertising and a compulsory (additional) £30/ month connection #freely
I thought I'd be well into my 60s before becoming lumbered with a "modern life is shitty compared to the 80s or 90s" attitude, but no there's 3-4 years left.
No #FM. Probably no #DAB either TBF. That's worse than the 1970s FFS.
Better get used to the fact that my dotage is going to be really fucking quiet and lonely :/
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