I am still new to privacy, please steer me. I see that many use RSS feeds to get their news. I was trying to use neuters as a front end to get my RSS feed started and cannot get it going.

Is a front-end even necessary for RSS feed? Does it help with tracking? Am I approaching my news aggregator the wrong way?

I tried searching RSS generator websites for neuters since I couldn’t just load the webpage into the app, but many are paid or require accounts. I have steered away from that at the moment. I just assumed every website could enroll in RSS…I was completely wrong.

I wanted to set up with NetNewsWire on ios.

I am willing to go an entire new direction with the collective knowledge from this community.

    • @tlujOP
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      11 year ago

      Do you know if different rss readers are more privacy friendly than others? How did you decide?

      • Bigtechblows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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        31 year ago

        @tluj @cavemeat

        The most private rss readers is one that is installed on your device, doesn’t require an account, is open source and has no trackers. Feeder from F-Droid is a good example of this.

        The worse would be a website type that requires a paid account and only takes a credit card.

      • @cavemeat@beehaw.org
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        11 year ago

        Good question, I have absolutely no idea. I chose feedly based on a different thread here talking about good rss feeds for news, I didn’t put much thought into privacy.

  • MrWiggles
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    11 year ago

    So, typically you use an rss reader of some sort, that fetches the content for you at a regular interval. I use LiFeRea, but there are other free ones. The websites are typically not free because they have to pay for all that bandwidth. I would look into Free/Open Source Software rss readers, you’re likely to find something thats functional, free, and doesn’t insert ads into your feed.

  • @CatherineHuffman@burggit.moe
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    11 year ago

    You can subscribe to RSS feeds from companies that provide them, or you can pay for a service that will create one for you like RSS.app

    I’ve never heard of neuters.