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?

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    6 days ago

    I have no idea. I know people can track you to the same extent they could track you going to their website, because they can put the rss behind a redirect call from a server which can call things like Google metrics. They also can sometimes serve you an RSS feed of podcasts with location-aware advertising. Those things I do know.