I was just looking through the Home Assistant App Store, and see there's now an app listed specifically for downloading pornography, shown by default, in the pre-installed app store.
In the Home Assistant Community Apps section there is a "adult video collection manager" app available by default.
This isn't a repository I've added myself, the HA Community Apps repo is one that's activated and added by Home Assistant by default.
I realize that we are all (probably) adults using this system, but this seems extremely inappropriate to offer on the default pre-installed app store.
Why was the choice made to put a pornography app front and center in a pre-installed addon repository???
I wouldn't fault anyone for adding this to their own system from a custom repo if that's what you want, but it seems to be in extremely poor taste to offer this in a default installation.
Firstly Apps are not preinstalled, you have to choose to download and install them. Also it's not a part of the 'Official apps' from Home assistant, it's part of the community contributed Home Assistant Community Apps... a completely separate repository. There's nothing default about it and it's been there for quite a while now. And finally it's an adult video collection manager. It does not provide porn, it helps you organise your own porn.
Interesting topic, I have no particular pro/con with porn but the question is more: should HA filter/manage (access to) specific content or not.... and then: what is 'specific' content. From what I understand, it is the admin/owner of the HA implementation that downloads the integration and that imo transfers the responsiblity to him(usually)/her.
I'm well aware what it is.
A "completely separate repository" that's installed and activated by default on every base installation of HA.
While the name "Community Apps" tries to denote that it's not officially supported, I suppose, being installed by default on every installation of Home Assistant (and can't be removed) wears thin the title of "community" IMHO. It would be more accurate to be called "Official but Unsupported" maybe.
I gathered that much from the description and following the Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Readarr naming convention.
My point of contention isn't so much how it works, but why a pornography collection manager / auto downloader is available by default on all installations of HA.
Further, the Community Apps repo isn't part of the Repositories and Registries editor menu. If something is installed by default and unremovable through the obvious means to do so, it can't get more official than that.
Imho it's not just in poor taste, but a bit of a problem that a porn downloader (tracker RSS watcher, same thing) exists by default in HA.
While (typically) the primary use of Home-Assistant isn't to facilitate pornography, so it likely does not run afoul of current Apple App Store guidelines, having this be part of the default offered applications is crazy. I would not be surprised if such a default feature would place it in a different category of application in some countries or in a category requiring age verification.
it is not an auto downloader. You have to provide it with indexes before it can even get to that point. There's no risk of seeing porn with this app by accidentally installing it. You would need to follow videos/ read documentation to learn how to use it.
It's also been on the app store for over 2 years without harming anyone, you would be the first person to raise a stink about this.
I suggest you continue (accidentally) ignoring this and focus your time an energy on more meaningful endeavors.
If Open Source software enables a level of freedom that you are uncomfortable with, you should consider switching to a system that incorporates the walled garden that best fits your particular sensibilities.
A torrent manager can download any kind of torrent you like . . . unless you subscribe to the Trekkie Monster philosophy from Avenue Q.
And since you can torrent Avenue Q, I guess that sort of invalidates Trekkie's argument. Still, don't do it if it would be a copyright violation in your locality. Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong.
we're all adults here, people are free to run an adult video manager if they have a need for one. if you dont like it, dont download it and use it to manage your library of adult media.
if whispaar was a problem, then so are the *arrs and plex etc since people can use those for piracy.
Tor is a popular and well respected security network used by many, but it's also used for some extraordinarily dodgy stuff, is having it listed there a problem?
it's a community repository, so as long as it's not dangerous or obviously illegal in it's bare configured form, then it's fine.
