Services That Allow you To Create Rss Feeds From Pages, & Privacy (Question)

[hippovsmouse]

I am wondering, about those services like feed43.com, that allow you to create an rss feed from a page that does not natively offer one. I could see where that could be very useful, as you could create feeds from pages that don't normally have them.

However I am wondering about privacy - if you put together your own little batch of rss feeds, wouldn't that be a way for the company to track your activities and preferences to some extent? I suppose it depends partially on to what extent the particular service you are using keeps track of the feeds that it's users create.

As mentioned I could see where such a service could be useful, but not at the expense of my privacy as regards what sites I like to visit, etc.

Thoughts welcome

 

[John Connor]

Well, anytime you make a connection to a website you are creating a log on someone's server that tells them what you viewed, posted to, your user agent, and time and date of request among other possibilities like your screen resolution. So if you use feed43.com for RSS feeds they would have the requests that you make to them since they pretty much scarpe the site's without RSS and allow you to retrieve that content through an RSS feed.

If you're concerned that much about it, consider a VPN. Just make sure you always use the VPN when you launch your browser that has the RSS feeds since as soon as you launch your browser the RSS feed will be retrieved. Real PITA if you ask me.