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surprisingly, these aren’t as awful as one might expect
smay@lemmy.smay.devto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are there any privacy respecting podcast clients/methods?English
7·3 years agoFrom hearing the developer of Overcast talk about this issue, it seems that hiding your IP is really all you can or need to do, as that’s what the dynamic ad services use to track you
smay@lemmy.smay.devto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Are there any privacy respecting podcast clients/methods?English
3·3 years agoOvercast itself is fine to my knowledge but it doesn’t do anything on its own to protect your IP from getting to the podcast hosting servers, which do all sorts of creepy shit. The only real solution would be to tunnel your downloads through some kind of VPN or centralized download service, and those aren’t services Overcast provides so you’d have to do it yourself.
iirc windows uses classic direction and doesn’t have an option to change it to “natural”, meaning if you happened to get used to “natural” you have to do some janky registry thing to flip it



another more explicit way to do that: