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Is Stremio a honeypot? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anybody have the impression that Stremio may be a honeypot of some sort?

Thay are allegedly a legal service where some nefarious actors provide torrenting plugins etc. I tried to find out how they were financed, and found northing but a site purportedly selling "Web3" advertising, and filled with technobabble nonsense. No address, no way to purchase their services no GDPR notice or anything...

All I can find regarding their safety are "It's legit, nothing has happened to me so far" comments in reddit and other boards.

They have your email, they host the service, they can track all you do...

Seems kind of fishy.

Ive tried it, ironically, to watch stuff that I pay for, I have Netflix, prime video, Disney... But Stremio gives me much higher resolutions.

Even though I live in a country where sailing the high seas is not persecuted, as long as you are the end-user and you derive no profit, I'm going to delete my account (made with an email address I have for bullshit stuff ), make a new one with a truly disposable email and get a VPN.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

You don't need to make an account. There is a guest login option.

The shadiest thing I am aware of them doing was the time they added a crypto miner and asked users to choose between that or ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For me, the guest login option only appeared on first boot. When i came back to it the next day it was gone and i had to use a fake email to signup :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which version of the application were you using? And where did you download it from? I haven't encountered this on the Samsung TV version or the APK from the Stremio website.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I am using the Stremio flatpak for linux. A friend of mine uses the windows version and he says he also experienced the same.