From 0cd4d3b9278be687e59991c45da84a9d1dcc4dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert S Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:00:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added paragraph on network containers --- README | 13 +++++++++++-- TODO | 2 -- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index f757a53..af001a3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -15,15 +15,24 @@ Also, by having only one client fetching the feeds and your readers pointed to the randrss's downloaded feeds, you avoid certain trackers that may identify you across devices (google's feed proxy, cloudflare), because it's very likely that the combination of feeds you read are -unique. +unique. As your feeds are on a single server now, you can isolate your +RSS reader to its own network container so it can only contact that +server. This is probably what you should do to be sure your client does +not contact the feed servers in any way. In Thunderbird, set +browser.chrome.favicons to false. + + randrss fetches the feed using Tor. +The only drawback of this approach is that the time you get new feeds +is delayed, but that should be acceptable. + Usage ===== First, tweak the shellscript a bit, if you like The input file has the following format per line: -url:output file:(optional paramater for the sleep time, in format x-y) +url:output file:(optional parameter for the sleep time, in format x-y) An optional user agent file contains the user agents we will randomly use per feed. One user agent per line. diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 96897e7..d60d85b 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -3,5 +3,3 @@ sent by the user agents we use. -how random is "shuf" and is it a problem? -update random default on every loop? --RSS clients fetch favicon from original URL... -