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  • Best privacy-respecting weather app?

So, I currently use omWeather, but the widget UI on my home screen looks so bad to me. Any other privacy-respecting ones that have a better UI? Or would it just be best to bookmark a site like weather.com to my home screen? If it matters, for U.S. (I see some apps are for specific countries).

    itsjpb Hmm, this looks cool, but when I add any widget to my home screen, I get this: https://i.imgur.com/LEmoA48.jpeg

    EDIT: Nevermind, I had to move the "current location" profile under the manual location I set. Weird.

    No offence to anyone, but i really dont see the point in having a weather app, can just check through browser (vanadium) incognito mode then close. Having apps that you dont really need just increase your risk of attack in my opinion.

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      tango

      Agreed. I keep Environment Canada url for my city bookmarked. It's a very clean page without ads, pictures, or videos.

      I use OpenWeather and I am very happy with it, the widget looks good and can be customised (theme, corners, opacity, location, size). The only permission it needs to function is Network so it can regularly fetch data.

        tango i really dont see the point in having a weather app,

        Some people like widgets, which require an app I believe.

        Having apps that you dont really need just increase your risk of attack in my opinion.

        Doubt that a weather app makes much of a difference, but ultimately depends on threat models anyway so...

        +1 to Breezy Weather by the way.

        I'd like to recommend the app "just weather", it's open source and doesn't have any ads or tracking. It has a widget, but like the app itself it's pretty barebones. More than enough for me though!

        Why Do you simply use a HTML file containing your preferred locations and a shortcut to this file in your desktop?

        By Example:

        <HTML>
            <BODY STYLE="background-color: #000000">
                <FONT SIZE="+4">
                    <H1 STYLE="text-align: center; color: #FFDCCC">WEATHER</H1>
                    <P STYLE="text-align: center"><A HREF="https://weather.com/es-ES/tiempo/hoy/l/SPXX0050:1:SP" STYLE="text-decoration: none; color: #FFDCCC">MALGRAT DE MAR</A></P>
                    <BR>
                </FONT>
            </BODY>
        </HTML>
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        tango I usually found weather forecast websites full of bloated JavaScript and full of trackers. In my humble opinion, having a well designed open-source weather app seems a better choice security and usability-wise.

        I use Breezy Weather by the way 😉

        I use Geometric weather and I like it.

          Eirikr70
          Is Geometric Weather still working for you? I was using that app on 2 of my devices but just recently (4-5 days ago) it stopped fetching data, so I've given up on it. I'm using Breezy right now. Just curious.

            I know its not FOSS but I find Yr to be a pretty good app.

            i use rain, its simply and beautiful