RSS and Privacy
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
Privacy from...?
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
Check for protections for Youtube, RSS itself is privacy-friendly.
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Privacy from...?
The biggest issue would be YouTube fingerprinting my RSS browser. But I am trying to learn about privacy, so I don't know anything.
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The biggest issue would be YouTube fingerprinting my RSS browser. But I am trying to learn about privacy, so I don't know anything.
I'd be pretty shocked if the ad networks that spy on all of us care about RSS. You're going to look like a bot, noise they actively try to ignore. The relevant piece of data to them would be a clickthru to the website (which they would then probably care about attributing to RSS)
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
The big advantage of RSS and Youtube is you do not have to login to follow you channels. Your only touching what you need and soyour footprint is a lot smaller. I just started using RSS for youtube and like it much better.
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
Title, quick summary and image URL are in the RSS/Atom file itself, everything more is done by the app parsing the webpage. But i think there's no problem with privacy.
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
About the VPN, if you do it for privacy, it's almost useless for Youtube and you trust your browsing history to the VPN provider.
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About the VPN, if you do it for privacy, it's almost useless for Youtube and you trust your browsing history to the VPN provider.
Why is it useless for YouTube?
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I am starting to use a RSS feed (Akregator). I intend to use it to follow youtube channels, and try to learn what else it can do. What kind of privacy issues should I be aware of? Are there settings I can use to improve privacy? I use a vpn, is there something else I should do?
I suggest getting RSS feeds from your subscriptions from Invidious. This way you won't directly connect to Google's servers.
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Why is it useless for YouTube?
Well, not useless per se, if you don't log in. But troublesome.
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