Substack, RSS, and privacy
Gardner Campbell,
Gardner Writes,
Feb 23, 2021
There's a bunch of stuff going on in this post, but they're relatively for a reader to follow. The first is the idea of RSS which persists to this day, which is that "new information that you are interested in, should be automatically aggregated into one place" and that you should be in control of that process. Two thumbs up. The second is the question of the privacy of these choices you make, both in terms of what feeds you follow, and what you read on the feeds you follow. Because, third, RSS readers want to be in the business of recommending content to you. Now I use Feedly, which has an AI-based recommender, and I select which data to send it. But, fourth, Gardner Campbell is looking at a reader that's new to me called Feedbro. The name does not fill me with confidence. It functions as a browser extension, not a stand-alone application, which means it gains access to all your browsing habits. And that leads to a fifth topic, Substack, which manages and recommends email newsletter subscriptions (that you sometimes pay for), which leads us to consider privacy and the RSS reader Substack has launched (previously in OLDaily).
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