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If you use an RSS aggregator like Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, or Inoreader, it's safe to assume and expect they will track you. It's shitty and there is (was?) no real alternative.
I know, which is I don't use any of those. The alternative is to not use shitty web apps.
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I know, which is I don't use any of those. The alternative is to not use shitty web apps.
What then? Do I have to maintain my own RSS aggregator server so I can read my feeds on multiple devices? Or do I have to restrict myself to a single device?
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Really? I thought browsers encrypt their user data & such with some type of user credentials?
Chrome on Windows encrypts the passwords using the Windows encryption functionality, which is tied to the user's account. Any software running on the same account can decrypt them.
Congratulation on shipping it! I definitely share the same values, so much that I developed a very similar Open Source RSS feed reader with the exact same requirements in mind (no tracking, no ads, no BS...). https://feedsubs.com ( https://github.com/NicolasLM/feedsubs )
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Chrome on Windows encrypts the passwords using the Windows encryption functionality, which is tied to the user's account. Any software running on the same account can decrypt them.
Oh ok, so but in chrome, I have to type my windows password to reveal my saved password. Can a native.exe app do that without requiring me to type my windows password?
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Well, feedly does inject ads so it is a thing.
It is a thing, and it makes feedly a bad application. "Not having ads" does not make your RSS reader good, it just makes it "not doing something bad and frankly, plain stupid". Not having trackers or ads is a given, in the same way your coffee maker doesn't come with tracking or ads, and you should go "uh, what? no thanks I'll use something else, this is ridiculous" when you find a coffee maker that does. Selling you…
If it's not an open-source client that I can run on my own machine, I wouldn't trust it. There's nothing preventing a service from tracking you or giving away your data, no matter what reassuring words they use.