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Crunchyroll Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Disclosing Anime Viewing Habits to Third Party
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Skavau piefed.social Skavau@piefed.social
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imeansurewhynot sh.itjust.works imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-12-31
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arrrr

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doug lemmy.today doug@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-02-14
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In my case they’ll see how often I accidentally hit the Crunchyroll button on my Bravia remote.

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P03 Locke lemmy.dbzer0.com p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-23
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Of course, I don't think it should be PII, but Crunchyroll should be forced to show viewing habits in aggregate, just like the TV networks.

Netflix, Amazon, and the rest advertise "#1 show" or "trending show" on their own apps, and we're just expected to fucking believe them, or not notice details like the numbers only pertain to the first episode, etc.

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lath piefed.social lath@piefed.social
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Isn't Crunchyroll an Amazon company or they haven't made that purchase yet?

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TallonMetroid lemmy.world TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-06
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Isn't Crunchyroll an Amazon company or they haven't made that purchase yet?

AFAIK, they're still Sony.

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AeronMelon lemmy.world aeronmelon@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-26
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Isn't Crunchyroll an Amazon company or they haven't made that purchase yet?

Prime is already a huge venue for Anime, I don’t see why they would except to eliminate competition.

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lath piefed.social lath@piefed.social
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Prime is already a huge venue for Anime, I don’t see why they would except to eliminate competition.

There was an article some time ago about how Amazon felt emboldened by the recent success of shows like Fallout and would like to delve further into the weeb domain, with Crunchyroll being a target for possible acquisition.
Might have been an opinion piece, didn't check.

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7U5K3N lemmy.dbzer0.com 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2024-03-19
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arrrr

*arr

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femtek lemmy.blahaj.zone femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-07-04
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Relates to this law at least in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

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Pratai piefed.ca Pratai@piefed.ca
Joined: 2026-02-12
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I had to threaten them with a lawsuit if they didn’t delete the account they made with my email that I never created.

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CosmoNova lemmy.world CosmoNova@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
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You know what doesn‘t disclose your viewing habits with third parties because it doesn‘t even require you to have an account to watch streams? Aye.

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Cethin lemmy.zip Cethin@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Prime is already a huge venue for Anime, I don’t see why they would except to eliminate competition.

You answered it yourself. When hasn't Amazon tried to eliminate competition?

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