54 lines
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54 lines
1.8 KiB
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What is randrss?
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Normal RSS readers usually fetch all feeds more or less at the same time
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at constant intervals. Anyone who monitors internet traffic can
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look for this pattern and therefore identify users.
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randrss fetches all your feeds at random intervals at an random order
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over a certain period of time. The feeds will be downloaded and you then
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serve them using your own web server. This way you also don't have to
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worry about how your client deals with cookies etc.
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Additionally, by having only one client fetching the feeds and your readers
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pointed to andrss's downloaded feeds, you avoid certain trackers
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that may identify you across devices (google's feed proxy, cloudflare),
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because it's very likely that the combination of feeds you read are
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unique. As your feeds are on a single server now, you can isolate your
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RSS reader to its own network container so it can only contact your
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server. This is probably what you should do to be sure your client does
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not contact the feed servers in any way. In Thunderbird, set
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browser.chrome.favicons to false.
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A drawback of this approach is that the time you get new feeds
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is delayed, but that should be acceptable.
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Usage
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Fetchers
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Scripts that request the feeds while trying to look like a normal client.
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By default, they are launched with "torsocks".
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Config file
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For each feed, an individual config file is used.
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Example:
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A simple example config file for kernel.org:
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FEED_URL="https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml"
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FEED_OUTPUT="/var/www/feeds/kernelreleases.feed"
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Launch
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randrss [path to directory containing the config files] [fetchersfile]
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fetchersfile: take a look at the example file in the repo. It lists
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the paths to the fetchers that will randomly be used.
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optional third parameter: "syncnow". Do not sleep for random intervals.
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Fetch all feeds and exit.
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