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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoTracker-free? There’s literally no way anyone could track you through RSS. It’s just an XML file and can’t run any arbitrary code.
there is actually. the user agent string, ip address, when do the images get loaded. if clients can user server provided CSS, that too can do some conditional reports. but yes the possibilities are much fewer, they are easier to fix.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sorry, I left out the part where most RSS fetchers are not hosted by the user. Of course it is self-hostable, but that’s by far the less common use case.
Images and CSS aren’t natively a part of RSS, though (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen an RSS feed or reader that tries to do any CSS rendering at all). Assuming you have a third party downloading your RSS XML, all of the tracking capabilities are outside of the RSS spec itself, and dependent on you clicking on a link or something after you get the RSS feed.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
oh that’s good to know, thanks!