RSS never tracked you.

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@Daojoan rss can be injected tracking and so can emails (e.g. via a tracking image). outlook and gmail are really hostile to self-hosted email services. blogs can have ads and other anti-features.
at the very end, you don't really own domains and IPs; big companies rent them to you.

what matters is never what kind of tech you use, but rather how you use it and why.

[thefranke@graphics.social]

@forst @Daojoan On Android FeedMe does the same, you can even set it as a default for selected feeds in your subscriptions. Some of them are also quite good a circumventing paywalls

[thefranke@graphics.social]

@forst @Daojoan are those extractors custom? Or do you contribute those to RSS-Bridge or similar projects?

[forst@mastodon.social]

@thefranke @Daojoan I use NetNewsWire, and it also allows this per-feed, as it turned out. Immediately enabled on the offenders.

[forst@mastodon.social]

@thefranke @Daojoan A custom Python thing, I write in what I'm familiar with. But I'm open to porting it if it can benefit more people

[dave@basilisk.gallery]

@Daojoan https://basilisk.gallery/@dave/114562977927631510

[thefranke@graphics.social]

@forst @Daojoan Are you familiar with this project? https://rss-bridge.org

Basically a PHP framework where you can easily write bridges that scrape a webpage and turn them into a feed, caching and everything else is already managed by the framework.

[forst@mastodon.social]

@thefranke @Daojoan Wasn't familiar with it until now, thank you for sharing!
Don't know how interested they would be in a plugin for a very local website, but could be a fun little project

[thefranke@graphics.social]

@forst @Daojoan oh they do have lots of those, and if not its super easy to self-host as well (got a bunch for mini websites and customized bridges myself).

[jjkrawczyk@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan
Don’t think I ever got spam on USENET.

[morebento@aus.social]

@Daojoan fond memories of gopher, newsgroups and irc!

[lulu@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan to paraphrase the musk: legalize community!

[schmudde@mastodon.social]

@sirber@jasette.facil.services @Daojoan RSS still works so well. It's a shame that the broader public doesn't know it exists. My newsfeed is always so interesting and way more diverse in scope and opinion than any algorithmic feed I've ever used.

[resl@mas.to]

@Daojoan ...and for that, it was perfect to me...

[seirdy@pleroma.envs.net]

@Daojoan@mastodon.social RSS tracking was absolutely a thing even in early days, but I agree with the sentiment.

[lunareclipse@snug.moe]

@mitsunee @Daojoan IIUC that decline started with Google EEE-ing their RSS reader

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@sarajw @Daojoan Blame the companies that trained people not to.

[bestcryptotwits@mastodon.social]

@ReggieHere @Daojoan Yeah it has gotten so out of hand I have really decentralized my content creation to multiple platforms now

[jjkrawczyk@mastodon.social]

@CppGuy @Daojoan
I was out by then. Mostly 80s for me.

[jeffgrigg@mastodon.social]

@jamesb192 @Daojoan

As a moderator I always said,
"If you can explain how that helps a person do 'refactoring - improving the structure of code without changing its function' then I'll allow it, ruling it 'on-topic' for this group. Otherwise, you're 'off-topic.' And banned."

And well, …
It was *always* the banned thing.