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Privacy weather app? (leminal.space)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by xorollo@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'd like to track hurricanes. All the apps I see collect all kinds of personal data. I just go to NOAA to see the advisories, but wondering if there is something better.

Edit: OS is Android 14 Edit: looking for radar (probably) or some other feature to track hurricanes (I don't know what tools there are besides radar, but if there's something else I'm interested).

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[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 5 months ago
[-] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 5 months ago

You're the second to suggest it. Just got it installed, and it looks really sleek. I'm a fan. I like the widgets too.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

It also has quite nice integration with Kvaesitso launcher.

[-] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Wow that's a pretty app. Thanks for introducing me to it!

[-] kixik@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Not a hurricane tracker, but I'd like understand a bit about open-meteo and breezy weather. I notice for my country there's no way to be more specific than the whole country, therefore location needs to be enable, or so I guess.

Does open-meteo requires some information exchange such that it's easy to identify the user/device? Does breezy weather actually attempts to anonymize the user or fake it to make them non identifiable?

Just wondering.

Thanks !

[-] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Isn't it illegal for the NWS to make an weather app because of lobbyist?

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago
[-] Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Yea pretty mess up, your tax dollars pay for the data that weather apps use for free, then some of those apps charge you lol. It was a big issue when the Hawaiian fires happened.

[-] dandimrod@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I use QuickWeather and use the Open-Meteo integration. You can even selfhost it for better privacy probably.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

This looks really good. Definitely checking it out

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago
[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago
[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sorry but now with the edit I can't recommend anything because the radars seem to always be very proprietary for some reason. I know some good weather apps. One of them has a feature called "weather emergency notices" or something like that. It can be what you're looking for but I'm not sure. "Breezy Weather" is the name if you're curious.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

I'll check it out!

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

Somebody else suggested breezy weather too. It is super sleek, and has some nice widgets.

[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

OpenWeatherMap seems promising, but their site uses Google analytics, have a lengthy privacy policy I'm not reading all of, and they have a bunch of paid subscription plans, so I'm rather pessimistic.

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hmm, the app on google play store says it collects no information and shares no information with third parties. I'm hopeful about this one.

---actually, looks like a nice general weather app, but doesn't have hurricane tracking features

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Having Google analytics means it's the same as a Google owned website. You shouldn't recommend such services for privacy.

[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago

What part of "I'm rather pessimistic" and complaining about their privacy policy sounds like a recommendation. It was more intended as a warning.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

I don't understand this obsession with only taking advantage of free labor and giving nothing back. Seems anti-thetical to the entire FOSS movement.

[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah yes when I think of the FOSS movement I think of greedy corporations that only care about how much money they get out of their contributor's labor. FOSS has proven the exact opposite if anything: that economics are built on lies, and that people can and will produce useful projects without any economic gain.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago
[-] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago

No, but it has static information, and it's not an app. The website isn't great on mobile either. It's got good information though, and I don't have to submit to location tracking.

[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's an open source front end called WX, it's a little harder to use but it's easy to adjust too.

It has multiple different radars that work well in places that don't have much data

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

This one has a clunky UI, but it has sooo much I formation and like ten billion widget options. I think I'm going to keep it around for curiosity's purpose and see if it grows on me.

[-] berryjam@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago
[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

wX (Weather app geared towards storm chasers, meteorologists and weather enthusiasts)

https://f-droid.org/packages/joshuatee.wx/

https://gitlab.com/joshua.tee/wx

[-] TauZero@mander.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

windy.com with a VPN in a private browser window. They can't track you if they don't know where you are!

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

This looks really good on my phone in Firefox, and it's pretty simple to save a bookmark to my homescren. I like it!

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