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Comment by TheRealPomax | Hacker News Reader

Why would an RSS reader with zero tracking or ads be a selling point? Those are not things an RSS reader should have to begin with, it's like advertising that you made an offline garden planner without tracking or ads: that is the expected baseline.

This seems a pretty strong case of the "having X is bad, so not having X must be good" logical reasoning fallacy.

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that is the expected baseline

I don’t know what world you’re living in, but that is absolutely not the expected baseline for consumer facing software in 2018 (unfortunately).

> I don’t know what world you’re living in, but that is absolutely not the expected baseline for consumer facing software in 2018 (unfortunately).

I don't know what world you're living in, but none of the "consumer facing" software I use has built-in tracking, including my RSS reader.

It's actually sad that apparently even the tech literate people on HN have given up and just accept that creepy corporate tracking is a way of life.

What's even more sad is that I know many people here work for companies that do this and they go along with it.

If you use an RSS aggregator like Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, or Inoreader, it's safe to assume and expect they will track you. It's shitty and there is (was?) no real alternative.

The alternative is a paid reader with no ads.

That also works.

I know, which is I don't use any of those.

The alternative is to not use shitty web apps.

What then? Do I have to maintain my own RSS aggregator server so I can read my feeds on multiple devices? Or do I have to restrict myself to a single device?

Feedbin is open source. Wouldn’t be difficult to get that running for a cheap box on DO or whatever.

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