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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.

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[–] curiousmind@qoto.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tluj
I personally use RSS generators like https://morss.it , https://fetchrss.com and https://politepol.com for websites that don't have RSS feeds.
I'm not sure if you mean Reuters. If you do, you can look for Reuters Bridge in here : https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/

[–] tluj@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for the reply. I was referring to news from Reuters, but on a front-end named https://neuters.de/ that removes everything except the article content.

[–] curiousmind@qoto.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@tluj
Oh nice, didn't know about neuters. Here's the RSS feed that you can put in your RSS reader : https://morss.it/:items=%7C%7Cli%7Ca/https://neuters.de/
(generated by morss.it)

[–] tluj@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago
[–] cavemeat 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tluj@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] bigtechblows@techhub.social 3 points 1 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 1 points 1 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@prime8s.xyz 1 points 1 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.