Apps aren't hoarding data, there's just no clean way to share it
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People act like the apps don't want to give any data away. And that's not the case,
Episode 109: 4 Gigs of Knitting (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:05:38 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
People assume podcast apps refuse to share listener data. Dave says that isn't true (Overcast already shares some in its user agent). What's missing is a decent, private way to share it.
Not in the audio. The Overcast/Marco user-agent example is paraphrased from the surrounding speech; transcript reads 'Marco gives this away in the user agent'.
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Episode 109: 4 Gigs of Knitting (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:05:53 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
there's no, there's no decent way to do it in a private way. That's not gross, and or weird.
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