Re:Goodbye, Feedly
by bornfreddy on Saturday July 02, 2022 @09:28AM
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Tangential: if updates bother you, you might want to give NetGuard a try (not affiliated). FOSS, though the pro version license costs $5 iirc. It is a great way to make apps behave nicely - even Firefox is too chatty (telemetry & co.) for my taste. Since updates are often from a different domain, you can just block them. How it works is that all the traffic on the phone is routed through a local (just an app on your phone!) VPN where it can be logged and filtered. Brilliant idea.
As a bonus, it is also very satisfying watching apps try to connect to various ad networks and spy agencies^W^W Google unsuccessfully.
Re:Goodbye, Feedly
by applefangirl on Saturday July 02, 2022 @11:33AM
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I use a similiar app on my Mac. It helps me catch poorly behaving apps so I can remove them.
PiHole is similar to this but self-hosted (and also blocks ads)
NetGuard is on-device, can't get much more 'self-hosted' than that.
Can PiHole filter per-app though? I wouldn't have thought so. NG can and it's the main reason I use it.
What does look cluttered to you in Feedly?
Re:Goodbye, Feedly
by apple4ever on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:44PM
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Just don't use the web app?
I've been using Feedly since Google Reader shut down and I've visited their site like once every six months.
I use Newsify on iOS and ReadKit on my Mac.
Also a matter of opinion but app developers IMO shouldn't use their apps to market. I've already got an email app and a Feed reader. If I want to keep up with you I'll subscribe to your mailing list or follow your feed.
I disable auto-update because I get annoyed when apps tell me about new versions (and I have privacy concerns.) I wont consider using an app that doesn't let me disable auto update. I already have a strategy to keep my software up-to-date that works on my schedule.
I recognize I'm sensitive to these things but that doesn't mean they aren't justified or don't make sense. They just don't make sense * to you *.