Completely fair, it it however worth mentioning that you can disable this data collection in settings.
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akilou@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoFrederikNJS@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
To be fair perhaps they want to make it possible to download the podcast unencrypted in MP3