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hackris ,

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

Rooty ,

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

LeLachs ,

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?

Anticorp ,

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

Appoxo ,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

And we even pay them to do so.

Anticorp ,

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.

marco ,
@marco@beehaw.org avatar

On an illegal streaming site I don’t even have to create an account and I’m opening it in an incognito window… on a legal streaming site, like Netflix, I have to give them payment info, email and physical address, …

AMillionMonkeys ,
@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world avatar

$P$G

gravitas_deficiency ,

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

unreachable ,
@unreachable@lemmy.world avatar

you wouldn’t downloadstream a car!

tdawg ,

Yes I would

Hazrod ,

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

rynzcycle ,

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

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

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

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.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

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 ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

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

yokonzo ,

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

some_guy ,

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

Blastasaurus ,

This looks like a Bri’ish ad.

I did not realize Comcast was in Britain.

yokonzo ,

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

altima_neo ,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Comcast also owns NBC Universal

SpaceNoodle ,

You mean Cabletown

InvertedParallax ,

Blergh!

scubbo ,

With a K!

SpaceNoodle ,

Cabletownk

ColonelPanic ,

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

Endorkend ,
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

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

drolex ,

Is it the “Club of bird friends of Radagast”?

Rai ,

Best Ream Wise

AVincentInSpace ,

streamsafely.com as well – they’re running legit propaganda campaigns now

means they’re scared. they should be

killeronthecorner ,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

www.streamwise.com

yokonzo ,

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

killeronthecorner ,
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world avatar

That was the point I was making.

thejevans ,
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

You wou^l^dn’t dow^n^loa^d^ a car

Oha ,

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

TheAgeOfSuperboredom ,

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.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

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.

amda ,

Nah they steal your data but you know for sure

Sabata11792 ,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

Ill trust 100 shady sites over a paid service that is obligated to spy on me.

smallaubergine ,

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.

Anticorp ,

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.

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