webwanderings

Apparently someonewhocares does not work with it.

Ghostery was in news recently, there was also a big thread here on HN. Sorry, don't have links handy right now.

Just uncheck the Allow non-intrusive option and this becomes a non-issue.

With recent onslaught of attack on Ghostery and Ad-block, I wonder if these two tools are doing exactly what they're supposed to do: help people.

.....Well, fuck them, and fuck that.....

Amen.

Incredible.

With the lack of options available in Google+ to adjust the UI, I would not want to move my RSS over to G+. Rather, they could have expanded Google News to transition the feeds over.

Because most likely those schools were in the business of producing zombies, or scared shitless kids due to teacher's punishment techniques. Those days are gone for good unless you are in the third world countries.

Thanks for confirming about the screen scrolling. I thought I was the only one.

I favor using independent accounts, but I never mind using OpenID for insignificant site access, when more sites were implementing it back then (not sure why it isn't used much lately).

" you just don't want anyone to connect the list of blogs to you?"

That's exactly my point.

No, there is a difference. An old book at the brink of extinction still belongs to you. You can get third party services to preserve the book for you with the stipulation that your preservation work and the book carries decent privacy rights (it won't be broadcast to the world what you're doing). Remember the old days when you would go to a store to develop your camera roll? The service implied that your picture content is between you and the developer of the film.

It's fine if people don't see any privacy implication here by submitting their reading collection. But as far as my single individual point is concerned, I don't see why I should upload my OPML for the sake of preservation. I have hard time uploading it to any other Google replacement out there trying to compete.

If you plug in a feed in InoReader, you get thousands of items from the past. It seems they are fetching the historical feeds (I can't tell how far back they go).

But why would ArchiveTeam wants to preserve the historical items in a feed if the feed does not belong to them in the first place (neither did it belong to Google)?

An IP on a mobile device is not as same as an IP on desktop. As far as desktop is concerned, unless ISPs are willing to track your exact location for the government, there is no way anyone can pinpoint your exact location through the public IP address.

I am sorry but I don't think people should upload their OPML like this.

Your feed collection is like your personal life. It should be private (so what if the URLs are public and general). By disclosing your collection, it is like you are living in a glass house.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see a single helpful reason for this service.

And what does the Ad agencies got to do with this NSA mess? Or in other words, is there any disclosure in this article of any Ad agency doing NSA's job?

The IP information is a common and general location, usually of your nearest Telecom tower. IP address in itself does not lead to your Internet device. So the paragraph is still inaccurate if the Ad agency is tracking through IP. Your IP was always naked and available to anyone you send email to (through the headers).

How the heck do you track Ad interacting habits through just an IP address? I call BS on that particular paragraph.

I think it would be psychologically better if that Fox were to show his eyes.

I don't care about downvotes but I can't honestly provide feedback as a user without comparing your products with other products.

Looks good and simple. But I am still sticking with InoReader. Even though Feed readers should be simple but they should still provide enough bells and whistles for the people to adjust settings (look and feel) according to their own taste and not the taste of the developer. Below I see a comment which suggest that you only prefer to use Google to sign in. Well, most people won't agree and they'd rather you provide your own sign on system. In any case, the same logic works for UI adjustments etc. For all these reasons, InoReader by far is the closest you can get to Google Reader replacement.

PS: I have only recently discovered InoReader and I have no stake in it but I have been playing with many RSS readers as I am a long time RSS user of GR.

A publicly clickable link can only be clicked. Imagine if you consciously don't want to click but your toddler nearby messes with your keyboard and clicks the link. Do you then become suspicious due to no fault of your own?

Okay interesting. But it currently doesn't seem to have all the bells and whistles for a local or a web client. Something tells me my memory usage will shot up if I attempt to import thousands of feeds into it. Besides, the fetching doesn't appear to be near the real-time (HN rss it pulled in for me, were at least an hour or more delayed).

Anyways, my installation on the windows went well. For now I'm back to testing InoReader.

But where does the feeds reside, local or remote?

How is this a desktop client and mobile at the same time?

Looks and feels pretty good (though I'm not sure how they'll keep it in business).

I believe i came across it the other day and brushed off because I didn't see a Register link (not signing up with Google or Facebook anywhere). But I logged in today and was fairly surprised to see the number of features available to the readers.

The key to any good Reader is the availability of the customizing features for the end-users, plus of course the speed and scalability. As soon as I plugged in HN feed to inoreader, I saw thousands of feeds fetched ready for me to scroll quickly. That's a first good sign.

The Brief add-on for Firefox does the same. It synchronizes across the machines because your feeds are your bookmarks.

I didn't use the word hate.

Keep in mind the solution Google still provides as I have documented* based on common search.

*http://web-wanderings.blogspot.com/search/label/rss

Looking forward. I will give this a serious try as I am not a Feedly fan. The first key is in them providing absolute control to the users for the selection of their content and the stuff they would rather see on their own (instead of platform dictating what we should see and read).

"used to facilitate".

These are the key words. It appears to be a pipeline, from government to independent corporate networks. The government uses this "system" to retrieve whatever they want to retrieve, and whenever they want to retrieve, the information from independent corporations, following of course the legal procedures.

Well, we can all go to sleep better now.