25 jaar geleden begon Jetstream (toen nog Streamzilla?) met livestreamen op internet. De sponsor van Fast Moving Targets is een pionier op dit gebied in Nederland. Om het jubileum te vieren, brengt het bedrijf een gratis professionele videospeler uit die een reactie is op ‘al die privacy schendende trackers in videospelers’.
Oprichter en eigenaar Stef van der Ziel legt op zijn blog uit waarom hij tot de gratis player zonder trackers is gekomen:
The internet we foresaw in the early nineties was a network to connect people, to share knowledge and to make things way more transparent.
Unfortunately, the internet has become a large spy web of public and hidden companies that permanently track all your activities. They sell your profile to anyone without your knowledge or consent.
We thought that the streaming industry was not really that involved in privacy invasive activities. But then we saw how many video players were using trackers. We saw so much data flowing to unknown parties and to clouds in remote countries.
I did not want my company to be part of this. And I don’t think our industry should be part of it. We should rethink the way we use and commercialize the internet: make it that great place again, to connect, to share and to celebrate our freedom. Stop tracking people.
So we decided to take two bold steps:
Let’s build a trackerless privacy player, that is better than existing players;
let’s make the privacy player free, to challenge the business model of any company that leaks data.
Mooi werk, Stef! Keep up the good work!
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