Netnewswire4/27/2023 It sounds like he’s planning to continue developing it as a free and open source project. (It’s real, though, in the sense that you can give a group of people a name.) If we took money, even a little. The organization Ranchero Software that hosts the NetNewsWire repo on GitHub does not exist as a legal entity it’s not even a non-profit. ![]() (Let me know if you’ve got one!) I remembered having a bad first impression when Black Pixel took over NetNewsWire, so I’ve been experimenting with other options like ReadKit and Reeder, though none of them have felt quite right to me.Īnd so I was glad to read today that Brent Simmons, NetNewsWire’s original developer, has finally gotten his app back. NetNewsWire has no bank account and does no accounting. Many of the blogs I used to subscribe to are gone, of course, but there are still some hanging on. Otros similares: Netvibes 3 NetNewsWire 4 Feedling 5 Pulse para Android 6 : De un vistazo permite ver las principales novedades de los sitios a los que nos encontramos suscritos y cuenta con varias opciones interesantes como organizar por páginas o colum- nas, compartirlas en nuestras redes sociales o guardarla en favoritos. Now that I’m trying to divest myself of Twitter, and since my Mastodon feed is orders of magnitude lower in volume, I’ve somewhat sheepishly picked RSS up again. Eventually, though, Twitter overtook my Internet usage to the point where I got all of my links from there instead, and I stopped using it. If you read these news websites, then please be aware that your behavior on these sites are being collected and shared with third-party entities, and that these entities are using your data to generate revenue.Īs for me, I use NetNewsWire, an RSS reader, that strips off those trackers (in most cases), specially when you open them in "reader" mode on your browser (Safari).NetNewsWire was my first RSS reader and a constant companion for the better part of a decade. ![]() There is so much room for improvement, in my humble opinion. Several Macworld editors using NetNewsWire for iPhone have commented that the process of checking for new articles and syncing read status takes a good amount of time when you launch the app. The only consolation is that the site is not (yet? hope not) using trackers that evade ad tracker blockers, and it isn't tracking mouse movements and clicks and keyboard strokes. As for Manila Bulletin, I was hoping that there will be a reduction as well, but instead, there is an increase in the number of third party cookies. (Note: you can subscribe to other types of Twitter feeds too. Then, in NetNewsWire, add it as a web feed (not as a Twitter feed). Then go, in your browser, to the Twitter list you want to add as a feed. Running the scan using this results in a small reduction in the number of third party cookies (100 instead of 110). First make sure you’ve added your Twitter account to NetNewsWire in Settings > Extensions. Whilst this exercise is not, in any way done exhaustively (I just ran the tool once for each site), you can verify the results yourself here. This is a win for readers! However, there is huge jump in 's numbers - their website did not fare well in terms of privacy, as it practically threw everything they can think of on their site to maximize the collection of readers' data. Here's the updated results as compared with the 2021 scan:Ģ023 Blacklight Scan Results There are some improvements, i.e., reduction in ad trackers and third party cookies used, from Rappler, ABS-CBN News and GMA News. ![]() Google Trackers Whenever I encounter a new website, I use this tool to determine how many trackers are embedded on it, and to double check if my tracker blockers are working. Now that more people are aware of the Philippine Data Privacy Law, I figured that I'd run the same Blacklight scan of these sites, hoping that maybe there are significant changes in favor of protecting readers' privacy.īlacklight is 's "real-time website privacy inspector" tool. Back in November 2021, I wrote about major Philippine news sites leaking data to third-party companies.
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