alt Hacker Newsyour internet connected videogames on consoles report telemetry
you are running jellyfin on a device, like a NAS. it reports telemetry. docker reports telemetry. you download jellyfin, microsoft gets the telemetry. you update jellyfin, it gets the telemetry. you download radarr, docker and microsoft get the telemetry... all of this stuff reports telemetry. github, you can see your own repositories' usage and telemetry! graphs/traffic. it's all there...
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GrinningFool • today at 5:52 PM
I play games, I know Sony knows about what I play. I watch netflix, I know Netflix knows what I watch.
Etc...
But there is a difference between the company whose services I use knowing about the service use, and the television mfg knowing about all of my activity.
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> you are running jellyfin on a device, like a NAS. it reports telemetry
Jellyfin Server packages are hosted on repo.jellyfin.org, so the Jellyfin organisation gets the data that you're probably still running Jellyfin and want updates, not Microsoft. I will accept that if you use the Dockerised version, Docker or GitHub will get that data instead. None of this is "telemetry", e.g. detailed usage information. It's quid-pro-quo; you want to know if there are updates, you ask the update server, it records that your IP looked for updates.
Jellyfin Server collects data and stores it locally on your device in logs and its database (e.g. viewing data, login sessions). This data doesn't leave your device.
What Jellyfin Server _will_ share a lot of, is data about your collection, to its metadata providers. You chose those when setting up your libraries. In return, they hand back nice metadata and pictures. So TheTVDB.com, OMDB, MusicBrainz and others you've configured, get queried about "Film name (year)" or "TV series S01E01" or "Band name Album name" and thus learn everything that's in your collection... but not whether or when you've watched it.