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Terms of use
What Quiblo is, what you are responsible for, and where your data goes. The page the app links to.
# The short version
Quiblo is a media player. It ships with no content and no way to find any, you supply your own sources and are responsible for them, and nothing you enter leaves your device except to the servers you named yourself.
The rest of this page is that in full. It is the page the app links to when it first opens, and it is deliberately short enough to read.
# Quiblo supplies no content
This app ships with no playlists, no channel list, no provider directory, and no way to find any. It is a player, in the same category as VLC or mpv. It has no knowledge of what your playlist contains and exercises no control over it.
You are solely responsible for the sources you configure and for the legality of accessing them where you live. If you do not already have a playlist or an IPTV subscription, this app is of no use to you, and the project will not help you find one.
Requests for sources, providers or bundled content are closed without discussion. Posting a playlist URL, provider hostname or credential anywhere in the project results in an immediate ban.
# Where your data goes
Nowhere. That is not a promise made in a policy — each line below is an architectural rule the code is held to, and two of them fail the build if broken.
- There is no account and no server of ours. Quiblo has no backend. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
- The app never phones home. No analytics, no crash-reporting service, no telemetry, and no server of ours. Outbound traffic goes to hosts you entered yourself.
- One exception, and we name it rather than bury it. Unless you switch it off in Settings, the app asks our own GitHub releases page once each time it opens whether a newer version exists. It is a plain request for a public file — no identifier, no device information, nothing about you — and with the setting off no request is made at all. Quiblo is installed from an APK with no store behind it, and a player that never says it is out of date is a player whose fixes never arrive.
- Credentials never leave the device. Xtream usernames and passwords are stored encrypted, and are never written to logs, exports or crash traces. Export a backup and the passwords are not in it; the app says so on the screen where you make one.
- Everything else is local too — your sources, favourites, watch history and profiles live in a database on the device and are not copied anywhere.
- Two features reach a third party, both off until you turn them on: film and series information, and channel logo lookup. Each needs a key or a switch from you, and neither sends anything about you — only the title being looked up.
The permissions the app asks for are INTERNET and
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE. There is no storage permission: files are read and written
through the system picker, so a file lands where you put it.
# What is not warranted
Quiblo is free software under the GPLv3, and that licence's sections 15 and 16 say this in legal language. In plain words: the software is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind, and the people who wrote it are not liable for damages arising from using it.
That is the standard free-software position and it is not a disclaimer of responsibility for the code's quality — see how this project decides something works. It means nobody is promising the app will suit your purpose, and nobody is underwriting what happens if it does not.
# No age gate, and no regional filter
Quiblo does not check who you are or where you are, and this is a decision rather than an omission.
The app has no server, no accounts and no way to verify anything about anybody. A control that appears to restrict access while verifying nothing is worse than no control at all: it offers false assurance to a parent and no obstacle to anyone else. The same reasoning keeps a parental PIN out of the app.
What you watch, and who in your household can reach it, is therefore yours to manage. Profiles separate favourites and history between people; they are a convenience, not a security control, and the app says so where they are created.
# If these terms change
This page carries a version. When it changes in a way that affects what you agreed to, the app asks again on the next launch rather than changing the terms underneath you. A correction to wording does not.
The page is part of the wiki, which lives in a public repository — so every change to it has a commit, a date and an author, and you can read what changed rather than take our word for it.