FreeTube's outgoing TCP connections to write.as

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

I think it is fair to say this is pretty mundane behavior. Apps checking in with a developer blog or API endpoint to notify you of changes is often preferable to not doing so, because staying up to date is one of the most important things you can do when improving your security.

Of course there is some small risk to privacy and security, as there are for any internet connection, but I don’t think most people need concern themselves with it.

Seeing as the original question has been answered by @overdrawn98901 in more detail already, I’m not really seeing a point to continuing this discussion. If you agree please mark the answer above or this post as the accepted solution.

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For the record,

@MMA-block

A responsible and forward-thinking negotiator will always figure things out for himself and understand how much the community of people who care about privacy is interested in providing an alternative for the functionality.

Figuring things out about tools, especially those we recommend, is on-topic for this forum, so I think it is fine to create threads like this.

However, providing an alternative for the functionality (i.e. considering “whether it is possible to provide stable updates without connecting to this www”) is probably off-topic here. Since we are not FreeTube developers, and many of us are not developers at all, I don’t think discussing all the things FreeTube could be doing differently in detail is super helpful. It isn’t helpful to our readers, who are not in a position to make these changes themselves, and it isn’t helpful for FreeTube, who are probably unaware of this thread.

So I think we are beginning to stray into the sort of discussion that would be better served on an app developer’s forum rather than here, probably.

@MMA-block

Okay, relax Solid Snake, don’t be grumpy, since specifics from regular users can sometimes be hard to come by, I’ll try to capture that here on Privacy Guides and not on another platform.

Anyone who starts using FreeTubeApp will get into the details and include brains. They’ll analyze where and why the application connects and exchanges data. Let me be clear: no one discusses this connection on the Internet.

This will be useful for beginners who want to analyse their traffic. There’s no need to send them straight to GitHub where they’ll get lost or stay there and forget about this project.

I feel like your replies frequently get a bit muddied (in translation?), but I think I understand your point:

• Other FreeTube users who are wondering about the write.as connection might look it up, encounter this thread, and find the information useful.

In which case I agree, that is sort of the point of the forum. Now I think this thread is getting off the rails a bit and may become less helpful for beginners, so that is also why it might be time to move on from this discussion

[lepras]

Bro asked a question, wrote the entire thread then marked his own post as a solution.

is Bro real?

[MMA-block]

Kid, they don’t teach you that in school, but what’s not illegal is allowed.

[overdrawn98901]

@jonah I don’t think anything useful is going to come from this thread at this point, could we lock it?

[MMA-block]

yes