
This means there's a good chance that any website you visit is a WordPress site, and all of those sites offer RSS feeds that are easy to find. How to Find the RSS Feed URL for Most WebsitesĪ shocking number of websites are built using WordPress-around 30 percent of the top 10 million destinations on the web. We'll also show you how to create your own RSS feeds for apps that don't offer them. Here are a few ways to find those feeds, quickly, when Googling just doesn't cut it. As said, YouTube will still get your IP address, or the IP address of your feed reader host, and it will still see if you’ve watched a video.And yet, most sites do offer RSS feeds. It can also be used to catch videos that become unlisted after initially being made public for a short period. Also, normally every video a channel releases will show up in your feed reader, whereas if you subscribe to a channel in the normal way, “The Algorithm™” won’t necessarily show you every video the channel releases. If you use RSS for YouTube, the main benefit I can think of is that you can use RSS to ‘subscribe’ to a channel and be notified when it releases a video without logging in or even having an account. Information about what sites you subscribe to will be leaked to the network your machine is connected to when it checks for feed updates, because the network will see the requests going out to those sites.

Information about the times of day your machine is running and checking for feed updates will be leaked to the sites whose feeds you subscribe to. I can think of a couple of privacy downsides to running a feed reader on your laptop or phone. However, there are less private ways of doing the same thing (social media platforms), so in that sense it might be a more private option. Like you say, to avoid having to remember to check each site and go to each site individually. It’s just a way to keep up-to-date with content published on the Web.
