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Yup it’s pretty good, although I would’ve liked it better if they provided a good way to export the data to another app

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I tested it and didn’t really like it. The UI is confusing and seems to want me to mark all episodes as watched instead of 1 by 1 when that could be a more logical option.

When marking episodes as viewed through my list, I can only mark one as viewed, and then I have to reload the UI

It just overall seems less intuitive than JustWatch, but I appreciate the suggestion :)

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I’m just thinking about https://privacyguides.org/ but they don’t really review everything, just tries to give an objective opinion on tools and services that they recommend

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It’s just that the decoy selection algorithm picks decoys in a specific way. Its patterns can be exploited, but don’t stress about it. Churning will make up for it, it’s not that big of a deal. Just avoid spending outputs exactly after 10 blocks as it’s waaaaay more common for real spends than decoys (we can see that the Monero blockchain has way more spends on <20 blocks old outputs than the decoy algorithm proposes), especially when churning. Wait at least a few hours to a few days between churns

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I didn’t really understand anything x)

Either are fine, as long as you have churned enough. Typically, the more time between transactions, the better it is. Withdrawing once per month will probably be absolutely fine.

The recurring usage patterns of XMR are either spend outputs quickly, or wait a long time. Spending old outputs will stand out a lot, but spending newly created outputs (like 15 blocks old) will also stand out quite a bit.

More time also means more chance of your outputs being included in transactions of other people, so more decoys at the time of spend.

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I’m not exactly sure of what you meant.

I’ll try to answer the best I can, can you reformulate pls?

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And yea sorry it’s pretty much always me that goes on the statistical things and traceability because that really interests me, but as you can see most people will tell you that it’s not really needed, and realistically, for 99% of people, no efforts will be made to monitor their transactions. It’s still nice to know that and churn if you’re extra paranoid like me, or you have a threat model that justifies you go this route.

XMR is a lot less traceable that regular crypto, and no one will follow a random person’s transactions for no reason. But on the other hand, churned XMR is a lot less traceable than XMR used directly. It’s all about how far you need to go and you’re willing to go.

Do note that churning might harm the amount of decoys overall, as you’re creating 2 outputs, 1 of which is a 0XMR output that you’ll never use, so you’ll never generate a transaction with it, and as such, won’t blend it with 15 other transactions. It’s not significant, but if everyone churns, that might lower the average amount of transactions your output appears in. We’re still very far from that happening though. And no, statistically, generating a 0XMR output will not help other people find the real output with value (or know that you churned) because it’ll only on average reduce by 1 the amount of transactions your output will appear in. The current average should be close to 16, so that’s not reliable enough to track you.

And again I spoke too much and talked about another subject that you didn’t ask for x)

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Depends on your threat model. If you’re not being monitored, then repeatedly churning might be too overkill

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You’ll never be able to properly block it

You can just go to Reddit instead. Same thing.

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Damn I never understood it but now it makes sense thanks to you

Yea it’s ugly 😭

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