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Well, NewsBlur gives you all that and is open source too. It's also less expensive if you use the hosted version ($36/yr for NewsBlur vs 48€ for feediary).
(No this is not a jab at newsblur, it might be an excellent product just like other things I don't personally like. My point is only there is room for more products.)
Personally I use Feedbro which I find excellent:
- works nicely (well, I had to restore my opml a couple of times) but when it works I really like it
- no login. No account.
- runs locally as a Firefox extension
It is not open source though as far as I can see.
> Opens website and sees subscription based model
> no thanks.
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that is the expected baseline I don’t know what world you’re living in, but that is absolutely not the expected baseline for consumer facing software in 2018 (unfortunately).
> I don’t know what world you’re living in, but that is absolutely not the expected baseline for consumer facing software in 2018 (unfortunately). I don't know what world you're living in, but none of the "consumer facing" software I use has built-in tracking, including my RSS reader. It's actually sad that apparently even the tech literate people on HN have given up and just accept that creepy corporate tracking is…
Imagine saying this about a native application like it's some special feature. Web 'apps' are terrible in so many ways.
Native applications (on mobile) have both in droves.
But using a feed reader on a mobile device is kind of silly anyway. It's not like you can do any serious reading or work on a mobile computer.
The lack of free/native RSS readers on Android/iPhone and MacOS (Thunderbird only?) is a truly sad state of affairs. I don’t want social, I don’t want online sychronization with whateverNews, I don’t want smart, I don’t want premium - just let me subscribe to the bloody RSS’ URL.
In the 5 years I've used BazQux reader, I've never once had an ad injected, never received a single promotional email, and if they are tracking me, they are doing an amazing job of hiding it. Fantastic software that I am proud to support. bazqux.com
Clickable link https://bazqux.com
Actually BazQux Reader removes some simple tracking like 1x1 pixel images/iframes and filters out images containing ".ads.", "feedads", "google-analytics" and few more common ads/tracking sites. I've implemented it many years ago when tracking fighting wasn't mainstream mostly to improve reader speed.
I'm also planning to implement image proxy to make everything HTTPS (no mixed HTTP/HTTPS content) and to resize overlarge images (speed again) and thinking to add proxying of audio & video too. So site owners would not know that you've loaded anything from them at all.
The only thing that BazQux Reader tracks is feature usage: Add/remove subscription/star/unstar/tag/search/share/etc. And only fact of usage is tracked, no details (e.g., no records of what article was starred/shared, only fact that star/share was used). It helps me to get statistics of overall reader usage but of course I don't plan to sell it (and I don't think that anybody needs it).
BazQux Reader gets its money directly from clients. It's plain stupid to sell data of client paying $20-$30 a year for .000001 cent and loose all the trust (and money and self-respect).
Imagine saying this about a native application like it's some special feature. Web 'apps' are terrible in so many ways.
Why would you think native applications do not track you? They do. And they have way more insight into your world then a web app.