How could anyone find out which sites are you following using an RSS feed? And I mean in a broad way: can the site track you? Can ISP? Network managers?

Let’s say you want to follow a bunch of political sites that you don’t want to be easily attached to, is RSS a good way to do it? Are there extra precautions to take?

My first thought would be that it’s the same as using any other browser, so not a great way to be private. Am I wrong?

  • oceanAEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    So if you put your RSS feed application behind a vpn it would be more private?

    • dengtav@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Then, only the vpn provider would see the very same traffic, the ISP would see without vpn.

      The ISP would just see your connection to the vpn provider.

      The sites themselve would just see the vpn ip.

      So it’s not the question about whether anyone sees the traffic, but who.

      Only Tor would hide this traffic in a sense.

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      2 days ago

      Private to whom? You’ve just moved the observer from your ISP to your VPN provider and whomever is upstream from them.