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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers by Bedon292 on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @02:18PM (#24641810)
Would you consider something like the Shield TV open source? There are some proprietary drivers, for things like Dolby Vision I think, but probably as open as you can get. [1] Or you could certainly set up a Pi / NUC to run Linux and Plex to have more control.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source

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Re:Google/Fitbit will monetise health data and harm consumers by DrPhish on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @03:06PM (#24642440)
As an anecdote, I previously tried to run Plex without any connections back to the mothership, and they were doing some super crazy stuff (server _and_ client side) to ensure that it wouldn't work if those servers/IPs were blocked.

If you really want to avoid external parties, you should probably be running Kodi, compiled yourself, and firewalled off from internet access for good measure. (This assumes you _are_ worried about tracking, and so only use offline media, and not Netflix etc)

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