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.
   

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More details on request. But not from me...

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Is there any justification for #freely #tv not being available for existing devices?

@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).

https://ebay.us/m/1RFB1h

#freely

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

The free streamer backed by U.K. broadcasters calls the new offering “an exciting new opportunity to drive discovery, viewing and advertising revenues from free-to-air streaming channels.”

The Hollywood Reporter

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!

#frustration #freely

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 :/

"For our purposes, we can simply define #digitalsovereignty as the exercise of authority or power over the #digitalsphere.
It's important to keep in mind that having #authority over a sphere doesn't mean running that sphere with an iron fist. It is typical of #democratic systems for instance that whoever has authority will use that authority to keep the system #open and to make sure that those who rely on it can act #freely."
https://berjon.com/digital-sovereignty/
Digital Sovereignty

Digital sovereignty has a bad reputation. In internet governance circles, sovereignty is considered awkward enough to be referred to by as the "s-word." It is often associated with misguided attempts at returning to the era of national champions, like building a French search engine or a European Google, or worse with the eternal boogeyman that is the "splinternet." It doesn't have to be this way!

Robin Berjon
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