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I've watched 1000+ movies & shows. Just started to track them last month on my personal site.

I can always use IMDB or LetterBoxd but I want to de-risk loosing all my work if a 3rd party company tomorrow decides to shut down or gets hacked. With my own data, I always will have a backup and lifetime uptime guarantee.

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Movie data isn't that valuable information to protect for an individual. Instead you can try making a contacts syncing software, or email storage, or even WhatsApp media backup system.

It's not about privacy, but loosing my data from a 3rd party hack or attack.

I can always backup my own code (json file) locally vs. asking letterboxd or imdb to backup my data.

Yes, but again, for most people, movie data is far less valuable than say contacts.

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