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This is typical behaviour for companies like these. The app here is just another weather app taking data from the european weather models and national weather
by kuschku 4y ago
This is typical behaviour for companies like these.
The app here is just another weather app taking data from the european weather models and national weather services. This data was created by taxpayer money and is most of the time available for free via APIs from national weather services (although "API" often means "a daily file dump on an FTP").
Then these companies take this free data, build an app around it and monetize it.
https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2020/20200312_bgh_urteil_news.html https://www.dwd.de/DE/presse/pressemitteilungen/DE/2020/2020...
In this recent court case in nearby Germany, ad-supported weather apps sued the German national weather service to take down the official free weather app. The national weather service was forced to make their app paid due to this ruling.
The APIs and data dumps for corporate customers have to remain available, though.
Nowadays I refuse to use any private weather apps. Private weather apps take public data, fill it with ads, and then sell it back to us. I say: Fuck them.
- fuck_google 4y ago
- olabyne 4y agouuh, wat ? Revanced is an alternative youtube player ? You are in the wrong thread ?
- kuschku 4y agoRevanced YouTube itself, yes. But the revanced project also removes ads and adds features to many other apps, including some weather apps. And one of those got Revanced taken down.
- Bilal_io 4y agoReVanced is more like a patch manager. The patches come from a separate repo which contains patches for more than YouTube. You'd find Twitter, TikTok, Twitch and much more. The issue is that someone accepted a PR for a patch a "premium" weather app. The DMCA takedown request came from the weather app's owners.