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, blo…

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

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

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?

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…

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.

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

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

[image] Anon47486929: Does it send requests on http for you too? I’ve never seen it

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

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