Is Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) just a user data vacuum now?

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5 years ago

A friend wanted to watch a movie together and suggested I sign up for a free service called Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) and being the conscious consumer I brought up their privacy policy and had a read.. https://www.teleparty.com/privacy/

> Aggregate Data. We may anonymize and aggregate data collected through the Service and use it for any purpose.

> We may share any information that we receive through the Service with vendors and service providers retained in connection with the provision of the Service,

> If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.

Alarm bells were going off for me, apparently they have a Patreon to fund development (https://www.teleparty.com/support)

original author appears to be stepchowfun on GitHub with both a repo and a blog post about the weekend project (https://www.stephanboyer.com/post/105/netflix-party-synchronize-netflix-video-playback).

But nowhere can I find any information on it being sold/given to the 'WP Interactive Media, Inc' as mentioned in the top of the privacy policy (which has no information about itself what so ever on the web other than owning the trademark https://uspto.report/TM/90110448 and being some foreign stock company https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/C4596372

With over 10M downloads on the chrome extension store, is it really just maintained by a single guy now or am I running with too many layers of tinfoil?

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