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Dark Sky Blog
blog.darksky.net · Company blog · on HN since 2016
The Dark Sky team posts company updates on the weather app, including privacy policy, its acquisition by Apple, and shutdown dates.
What HN saysHN links it for the shutdown news: iOS app support ends at year end and the API and website go away the following March.
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- 1Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 318 people · 386 points · first shared 2020 · 301 comments on HN
- 2Location Tracking and Privacy7 people · 5 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Apple acquires Dark Sky3 people · 941 points · first shared 2020 · 576 comments on HN
- 4Introducing DarkSky.net3 people · 104 points · first shared 2016 · 31 comments on HN
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skyo · 2022-09-13
The Dark Sky API is getting shut down in a few months:
https://blog.darksky.net/
lelandfe · 2022-07-03
> I hope they continue to support Darksky
Some bad news: iOS app support ends at the end of this year, and the API/website gets yanked next March.
https://blog.darksky.net/
willstrafach · 2017-08-26
Dark Sky actually addressed this topic recently with some additional information. Good read.
https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
thrdbndndn · 2022-09-12
Link should be https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/
tlavoie · 2019-06-27
In Canada, the federal government has released their own weather app (WeatherCAN), including alerts for significant weather in your area. It's basically replaced the commercial weather apps on my phones.
I would pay for DarkSky if it was available here though; I quite appreciate their approach to location privacy: https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
nerdbaggy · 2018-12-10
Not sure if I agree. Dark Sky likes to have your location all the time because it enriches the data for everybody else. The promise not to ever sell our data, but they do say they are approached usually at least once a week about selling it https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
fuzzmz · 2016-09-21
I have some bad news to give you: forecast.io is going to be replaced by darksky.net[1].
1. (http://blog.darksky.net/introducing-darksky-net/)