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Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by iand »

vvillena wrote: post #64
jlarocco wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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.

The alternative is a paid reader with no ads.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by jlarocco »

vvillena wrote: post #64
jlarocco wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by jonafato »

expertentipp wrote: post #66

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.

I quite liked Vienna (http://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss) while I had a Mac. It has options to run both as a standalone application and synced with various online services.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by delish »

listenallyall wrote: post #11

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

I also use and enjoy BazQux. It's fast and supports vi-like keybindings.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by invernomut0 »

expertentipp wrote: post #66

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.

I like Reeder[0] and I use it since some time without problems.

[0]http://reederapp.com

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by dawnerd »

sbr464 wrote: post #42
dawnerd wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One problem I have with that is if a designer sends me a file in a newer version I have to upgrade even if they didn’t use a new feature. Photoshop at least let’s you save in compat mode. So I’m basically forced to keep buying the newest version even though I use it maybe a few times a year. Not worth the price IMO.

I agree with those points. It may not be best for Sketch (design software) I was more referring to the licensing model, to offset the high lifetime price, that may put off someone buying.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with yearly subscriptions. I happily pay for newsblur for example.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by icebraining »

davchana wrote: post #41
tomsmeding wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose it can read/write the browser's cookie database whenever the browser isn't running -- or maybe even when it's running, I don't know. That would enable using Google Analytics just as if it was a webpage. Do not forget that native code running locally is at least as powerful as X, for almost any X that you can use on your computer. (The only thing that's more powerful than that, is native code running locally…

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.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by dewey »

expertentipp wrote: post #66

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.

On iOS there's a healthy selection of standalone apps I'd say, most of them offer support to sync with paid or self-hosted online services (If they support the Fever API). My current combination is a self-hosted Miniflux instance and Reeder on iOS and macOS as clients.

I wrote a little bit about it here: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac/ and there's a good discussion with other readers here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577442)

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by pmoriarty »

justadudeama wrote: post #51
pmoriarty wrote: post #3

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.

Which client do you use?

I use newsboat[1][2], an actively maintained fork of the excellent newsbeuter.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by rmm »

As an aside. I absolutely hate sites that only send a partial RSS feed, showing only the first paragraph or what have you.

I know the logic, entice me enough to click through, serve ads etc. but 90% of the time I won't, unless I am really interested, but MOST of all, I fly for nearly 30% of my week. First thing I do before boarding is updating my feed, not being able to access full content has had me unsubscribe to a whole bunch of sites in frustration.

/rant

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