A 5-star idea w/a 10-gigaton problem – myTuner Radio - Live Stations Review

Privacy. That’s the issue with a good selection of radio stations served up well. I just don’t want anyone to know who I listen to, whether someone’s after data on my taste in music, or I decide to check in with what the thugs of the trump.right or other nations’ Nazis are up to. Now, I could always just get a good multiband radio and set of antennas. Or ... I can’t expect anyone to run the Ultimate Station without expecting to make some cash for the effort. So, here’s the alternative: Offer paid service, using Squrl encryption smart login (look it up, webfolx everywhere- Steve Gibson has the ultimate system for logging in as a paid user to any web-based app without leaving a trace) and encrypted requests for, and delivery of product - standard 24-bit pubkey. And a contract with a bonded party that no data about my use of the site can ever become public. The only record kept - did X pay account? OK, login stays good. Now it will allow some vile folks to listen to some ugly stuff with no one, including the uglies, the wiser. And it’ll cost users to get an encrypted account, because there will be no ads and no info to sell to the listbuilder services - but in times when a single copy of a good newspaper is $3 local/$5+ out-of-town. But media costs. And you can pay with your privacy OR pay cash- if the system owner’s willing to do it - it means a REAL contract with subscribers, promising no info gets out - backed with an insurance policy that pays BIG if it does - inexpensive if the provider just doesn’t keep records. Look, these days, your digital TV provider’s monitoring every second you spend watching (hint, they don’t send 500 vid channels down the single two-way fiber that gives you hs internet AND one to 4k-line video channel at a time AND two voice lines- those extra 499 or so vid channels just don’t fit! And your 5G signal can be tracked and traced by your Friendly Service Provider or the one you use when you use this kind of service instead of a car radio. It’ll be up to us to decide if it’s worth what the service wants to charge us + those unlimited data accounts. Give the public good service and yell all about where their data goes otherwise - including back to the folks you listen to, and, provider willing, we’ll get a choice. Laws preventing datatheft may just drive services like this out of business - not a good idea either. Real radio was easier before FX and the like got in on the action US listeners are free* to listen to any broadcasts they wish - unless limits are posted during time of declared war (*except for cell phone frequencies). Car encrypted broadcasters sell your listening data too. It would be fantastic for a wealthy privacy advocate to provide the kind of service I’m talking about frer, but I’m not holding my breath.
Review by inkstainedwretch ,retd. on myTuner Radio - Live Stations.