No duh bro. More than one person can live at a house though. So USPS knows who owns the house like you said, but not anyone extra unless that data is given to them, like for example when you create an account and include that you ALSO live at an address as the owner.

Moreover, if you read USPS privacy policy, they use Google Analytics, so guess what? Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google. They also allow tracking pixels from meta, LinkedIn, and several other companies.

So no, it’s not just “the fucking USPS already has your address dude”, it’s that several other companies also are getting that data when they dont need to be. That’s literally the whole point of this forum and the data I provided above is relevant. All I’m saying is if someone wants a PO box, it’s not as private as one may assume. The seller you’re buying from won’t know your address, but tons of tech companies will.

I honestly hate people like you. Learn to be more curious and ask questions instead of trying to be a smart ass. You could have asked “But why worry that USPS already has your address, aren’t they literally a delivery company?” That’s a completely valid question, yet you chose to be a dick. Go fuck yourself.

Correct, the seller wouldn’t know, I’m just saying that that data now goes to UPS or whoever your PO box provider is instead of the website you’re purchasing from

In my experience, when I went online to rent a PO box, they force you to create an account and asks for a bunch of invasive information anyways including my address, so I gave up on that idea for now.

Maybe it’s dependent on the post office. Maybe I just need to go in-person and maybe they’ll ask less info of me?

My bad, I misinterpreted. I thought you were just asking about Android music players that just play music locally. Then I saw we were in the Jellyfin sub hah. Hopefully you find a solution to your problem

Try out Poweramp, I would disable network access but otherwise this is gonna be hands down the best in my opinion. It’s a premium option though, you’ll have to pay to use it eventually but let’s you use it for like a month or two for free. Can buy it on their website and then they’ll give you an apk to download so no google services needed

Otherwise, on F droid I really like Lotus music player, looks super nice and works well. Def suggest this one as well and of course its free, so even better

I run three profiles: main profile is where all my FOSS stuff is, every day things, no tracking stuff allowed. And of it does, I just revoke network permissions. No Google play services or play store installed on this profile at all

Secondary profile has banking apps, basically anything at all to do with money or requires Google play services to work. I even disable network access for most of the apps on my secondary profile until I need to use them. Google play services and play store are installed on this profile.

Third profile is dedicated navigation user that just has Google maps and other amenities like music for listening while driving. I have this one separated because I allow my secondary profile to run in the background and I don’t want Google maps running in the background so I created a third user. The third profile doesn’t run in the background. It’s pretty easy, I just switch to it when I need solid navigation. This of course also has play services installed. I know this is overkill. It’s just for myself because location tracking is a particular peeve of mine

All my profiles have Molly installed and connected up so I never miss a text or call between profiles

What a great display of free speech!

I’m just so numb to this shit by now. Privacy is dead. It seems like EVERY company, even companies that aren’t ad agencies like Home Depot are collecting, scraping, and selling data. Literally everyone does it now. Capitalism is dead. Nobody wants to make money by creating an actual good product, it has to be taking advantage of you in some form.

This modern world fucking sucks and nobody will do anything about it. Even me as I type this paragraph out I recognize the irony in me saying this because I should be out there actively doing something about it if I’m so passionate about it right? I try where I can though. I use all FOSS from my phone to my laptop and I boycott companies I don’t agree with. I try to make friends and family aware. I can’t do much else without upending my entire life though.

Plus nobody cares. Everyone is too fat and happy with iphones and tiktok that they will passively accept these increasingly worse conditions and laws while those of us with morals are left behind