Best RSS Reader (Android) for privacy and security?

Privacy Questions
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There are many RSS readers available on Android, does anyone have a good recommendation for a FOSS one that aims to thwart tracking and aims to be secure?

Ideally, it should allow me to use GrapheneOS’ webview instead of its own browser implementation, gives me an option to turn off JavaScript, blocks cookies and blocks tracking pixels. (Bonus: written in a memory safe language, has good UI and any other extras that can benefit my privacy)

Any idea if this exists?

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Feeder is awesome GitHub - spacecowboy/Feeder: Android RSS reader app

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I use & recommend ReadYou.

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feedme rss. fully featured, tries to parse text only from articles or load webpage if it fails, can use vanadium, supports multiple APIs to sync with desktop, listen to articles TTS.

edit: not FOSS

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I been trying it and it doesn’t seem to be fetching very well. Always takes a lot of time and misses a lot.

Have you had any issues with it?

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I’ve had ongoing issues with Feeder. Two or three times an update will not load the articles in a few of the feeds I follow. The first time this happened I contacted Spacecowboy on Mastodon and it was fixed in the next update. This problem has appeared two more times.

My way of dealing with this is to have Feeder installed on my phone and tablet. I update the tablet’s app, and if all is well, I update the phone’s app. I’m currently two versions behind on the phone which isn’t great.

I stay with Feeder for it’s keyword filter.

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Feeder is fantastic. In my case, the option to open the text in the browser allows me to use the translator and thus follow media from all over the world.

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Read You with Fresh RSS
I used to use Newsblur but it had a data leak before and is impossible to selfhost

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I’m loving Feeder. Everything i need as a local only rss reader.

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Does any of those RSS Reader rank feeds by average clics like feedly does?

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Feeder and Read you don’t, since they use local RSS feeds and thus don’t have access to server side analytics for stuff like this.

Does it send requests on http for you too? I saw a lot of logs on my router where it used http even though the feed used https. That’s my only issue with it rn, and I really want to use it (since it now has a webview based reader)

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I’ve never seen it

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Ah cool. I found out the issue though. It seems to be that some feeds still serve XML or imaged over HTTP, even if the website itself is HTTPS. I block non-HTTPS traffic, so it caused issues on my end.

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