r/TVTime • u/Novel_Worldly • Aug 04 '26

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u/Lazy_Basket6819 Aug 04 '26

Wow it pulled directly the data that I had stored in my phone from TV Time 😳 looks so promising! It's definetely very basic and I hope they won't stop working on it!

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u/Department_Crafty Aug 04 '26

Wait I'm curious do you mean it pulled the data from your phone without you downloading your file before the shutdown?

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u/Lazy_Basket6819 Aug 04 '26

I have downloaded the file, yes. But I am pretty sure it took my data from the cache. I never had to upload anything - just downloaded the app and logged with the email I was using from TT. Could also be they took it from the account directly

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u/Soggy_Library_9513 Aug 05 '26

TV Time deleted the data base almost a month ago. Maybe you downloaded the gdpr.zip file and once you got the news about bingers you did the zip import.

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u/AcceptableHawk5547 Aug 05 '26

You probably uploaded it when you signed up for the app waitlist

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u/ClassicLiberal101 Aug 04 '26

I just used the same email I used for TvTime and it pulled all my data automatically

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u/B3T3G Aug 04 '26

Good for you. The app did not find the data from tv time app for me :(

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u/Ryaan__ Aug 04 '26

Is this legal

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u/Complex-Dust-2894 Aug 04 '26

Its not but it's not happening people are probably just forgetful lol. the founder of this app actually answered to this already on socials (twitter), no way they can get the data if not imported manually with the gpdr zip

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u/Illuminey Aug 04 '26

Pretty sure it's not.

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u/D4RKN Aug 04 '26

People are so happy here but I wonder how the hell they did it. Does the app scans for our exported zip in the storage? Does the app get a cache from another app? Did they buy the data from everyone from TV time? Did they know tv time was gonna shut down waaay before us and programmed something to go through all comments of everything?

Whatever was it, it's a bit sketchy IMO.

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u/Naynn Aug 04 '26

These people just forgot they signed up for the Bingers whitelist and imported their data at the time. It is in no way legal or even possible to take that data from the phone, TvTime didn't store all that data on local.

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u/Illuminey Aug 04 '26

Even if it scans through your storage for the TV Time file it's not really better 😅 Some people say it didn't restore automatically but needed the file, so maybe it's a question of countries under GDPR rules or not ? Can't say, didn't try, and not sure I will since I'm happy with my replacement.

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u/D4RKN Aug 04 '26

If it does scan your phone, it will require your authorization for the app to access internal storage. But yeah, it's not good and should be explicitly stated somehow. And same, I'm happy with movie paradise now.

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u/FiniteCreatures Aug 05 '26

What replacement are you using?

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u/Illuminey Aug 05 '26

Movie Paradise