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how private are RSS feeds?
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this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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Depends on your threat model. If you use secure DNS and https for the RSS feed, then these people would know your IP and the IP you're connecting to:
Your ISP or VPN will know you've made a TCP connection to that server at a specified port, but that's it. It's trivial for them to reverse lookup the IP back into a name.
Only the RSS server will know the specific URL you're visiting though.
and the site itself!
They are one and the same.
jeez I wasn't reading very carefully. I read that as "Only the RSS reader"