Can I have recommendations on open source weather apps that use publicly available weather info for Android? (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago by GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've been using Weatherbug as my "gold standard" for years as an athletic trainer to track incoming storms and lightning strike data during outdoor sports events, so those features are pretty important to me. I've just gotten so fed up with their shitty practices. The ads are getting worse and worse(to the point that they're almost exclusively clickbait malware) and they keep nudging me with push notifications to buy the ad free version. Which is of course a subscription instead of a one time payment. They even tested locking the future radar behind a paywall briefly. They must have gotten hammered by uninstalls because it didn't last very long, but I'm not comfortable with staying engaged with a company that's constantly trying to see what features they can get away with removing.

Thanks!

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[-] francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know this deviates from your question a bit so I am apologizing up front (the sovcit posts that I love have made me wanna deviate)... I really like wunderground. I hate that IBM bought them though but it's probably to monetize their trove of weather data. they have access to private weather stations, great viz of weather data by the hour, history to the day, etc. I use nextdns.io to block ads to the best of my ability but I know there is some device info they collect. It does have a rubust section on opting out and deleting tracking data. I don't see lighting tracking regretfully. It's worth trying out. The website can show lighting BTW.

[-] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Fellow wonderground user, I second the recommendation. Their weather model is pretty good and I paid the small yearly subscription price so no ads.

Note that IBM sold them, that's why you haven't seen the IBM logo on the loading slash screen again.

[-] francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Ooh.... That is good news. Thank you. Screw Big Blue.

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