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Do you use https://www.met.no/en as source which is Libre at all or you use some propietary source?
Ah, self-reply: still dependent on the propietary "Open"WeatherMap service.
Sorry for a late reply.
Yes, Serenum API uses OpenWeatherMap :) I have sent an email to OpenWeatherMap regarding their privacy policy, if they log anything when calling their API.
And regarding the API at met.no. I didn't knew YR was FOSS :O Really good! Will take a closer look into it!
However, it is unclear if YR log anything from when using their API (source: https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360003337614-Privacy-policy). This applies to OWM as well. I'll wait for their reply over email before I decide to switch or not.
Many thanks for telling me this! :D
Edit: After reviewing api.met.no's locationforecast, I will email them to ask what they log when calling their API. If they say that they do not log anything, I might choose YR over OWM, no matter what OWM says.
Maybe you saw something I didn't but the few mentions I saw for yr.no were about using met.no data.
The API in question would be available in https://api.met.no/ got from https://www.met.no/en/free-meteorological-data/Download-services section.
They even mention yr.no to be some derivative in that page:
Additionally, in their blog they mention that they provide(d) their own service different from met.no at https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360001940793-Free-weather-data-service-from-Yr
Sounds like met.no is a different services than YR. I did send them an rmail yesterday. We'll see what they say, but I do really like their API. So I might make the switch even if they log something when calling their API.
This is used by GNOME Weather application as well as some weather Android apps such as https://f-droid.org/packages/uk.org.boddie.android.weatherforecast/