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CloudWatcher

(1,930 posts)
7. It does look interesting!
Sat Sep 12, 2020, 07:13 PM
Sep 2020

Hmm, the company is based in Portugal, but with sites that cover many many countries. Interesting!

Mostly it's an aggregate, redelivering content produced by others. But it's clear they have more than a little funding. And if they're evil, it's not getting detected by Apple/Safari. Apple does maintain a list of sites that are black-listed, and those are *much* more difficult to get to accidentally.

Ah, they have about 48 "sites" covering different countries. And 14 of those are using HTTPS.

At some point they should switch all their servers over to use https. It does take a little more cpu time (i.e. $) to encrypt traffic, so I suspect they're just being cheap for now.

Offhand they don't seem too evil, other than making money (with ads) by aggregating other people's conntent (kinda like news.google.com for example).

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Try Tunein. Here's the link: mucifer Sep 2020 #1
thanks TexasProgresive Sep 2020 #4
Try TuneIn or listen to the podcasts... targetpractice Sep 2020 #2
thanks TexasProgresive Sep 2020 #3
In this case, it's not a problem! CloudWatcher Sep 2020 #5
Thanks it's a great site with lots of stations and podcasts TexasProgresive Sep 2020 #6
It does look interesting! CloudWatcher Sep 2020 #7
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