Suggestions for an iOS News app (or way) that doesn't track (much) data ?
Suggestions for an iOS News app (or way) that doesn't track (much) data ?
Hi there, I’m quite new to this digital hygiene thing. I try to avoid apps on my phone that tracks useless data for their initial purpose. How do you guys read news ? Would love a "respectful" app that doesn’t track too much data, but I’m open to any solution. Would like to browse international and french news.
Ground News has a decent app that has minimal tracking, and location access can be blocked without the app refusing to work.
8Trying it rn, looks good for now. Thanks !
2You're welcome!
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Does a RSS feed work for you?
5I’ve been absolutely loving my FreshRSS and NetNewsWire set up. Even my local news is easily accessible in a feed for me, now.
Got my non-tech spouse on board, too. She’s been liking it.
2Would work, but only with sources I register. I’d rather have something that suggests sources I don’t necessarily know
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I like lire. It works with any of the popular feed syncing services, self-hosted, cloud-hosted, or it can just run locally on your phone. Also, when full text extraction works, it's a gamechanger. Unfortunately some websites (like bleeping computer) block it.
1Thanks, I’ll probably check this out !
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Have you tried Apple’s included “News” app? I’m in the US, so I’m not sure how well it would work for you. But Apple generally doesn’t sell your data, although I’m sure they do analytics for internal use.
I use that, Ground News, and daily digest emails from my local city newspaper and the indie neighborhood news site.
1I might try Apple News, but I’m afraid of a possible bias. Ground News on the other hand seems to provide many sources for one subject and I’m digging it for now
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