How are y'all getting your Weather?

Just found out my name and social security number are on the dark web so I'm done playing. I know it's just a weather app, but I'm tired of my data being sold. What's the best privacy-focused way to get your weather?Minimal-tracking that avoid selling user data. These are the apps I've learned about so far:

• Breezy Weather (Android):
  

  The Take

  Marcus Webb · Surveillance & Tech Privacy

  The naïveté here is almost quaint. This person discovered their SSN on the dark web and somehow concluded the weather app is the culprit. It's not. That data's been circulating through compromised databases for years—Equifax, OPM, countless medical breaches they'll never hear about. What's actually happening: the weather app *is* harvesting location data in real-time, building behavioral profiles, and selling to data brokers. But it's not the exfiltration vector for their SSN. That came from somewhere else entirely, and they're now conflating two separate security failures into one moral panic. The real issue is they're asking the wrong question. "Best weather app" assumes consumer choice matters here. It doesn't. Whether you use Dark Sky, Weather Underground, or roll your own station, the telecom infrastructure logs your request. The cell tower triangulates your position. Your ISP records the query. The app's backend ingests all of it. Stop looking for the "safe" weather app. They want you hunting for individual consumer solutions to systemic architectural problems. That's the racket. The data extraction doesn't stop—it just gets laundered through different vendors.

  What the Documents Show

  These are the apps I've learned about so far: Breezy Weather (Android):

  🔎 Mainstream angle: The corporate press either ignored this story entirely or buried it in a 3-sentence brief. The framing, when it appeared at all, focused on process rather than impact.

  Primary Sources

  • Source: r/privacy
  • Category: Surveillance State
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