I was thinking of the cost of hosting the site rather than paying for the media. Thanks thoigh for the comment about checking the stream source.

Looking through the discord group it looks pretty straight up. Part of the project is an android music player.

Its on fmhy site here https://fmhy.net/audio Has invite link to Discord and Telegram

Im not aware its possible to put malware in a flac file and its still playable. There are a few examples from 2007-2008 but they were to do with flac media players. Microsoft showed you could corrupt the meta data but its then unplayable. I think BlueRingedOctopus comment has the right idea.

If I was I’d be earning a lot more than I do at the moment.

Fair enough. Thought that after I posted.

I was doing some investigating of various browser telemetry using android pcap log. I noticed that on any browser I install bypass paywall plus there is a call to gitflic.ru when viewing a page even when it’s not on the list of processed websites in the extension. I can’t tell the contents as it’s https. Considering this extension and developer have been around for a long time I’ve no reason to suspect the extension but I’m wondering why the connection? I doubt it’s checking for updates as it does it often when viewing any page. Any thoughts from anyone? I’m not trying to run down the app at all, I think it’s really good, just wondering why the connection.