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After some thinking about the current state of social media and mass email lists, RSS came to mind, and it's actually a much better alternative for privacy. No data collection, no feed manipulation, no email newsletters. It's like someone from the future went to the past and gave us the answer to subscribing to creators without giving our away every detail about our lives.

## Little to no data collection

As far as I'm aware there is no way to collect personal data through RSS feeds. You get an app (pick a good one like Feeder) and add each site's XML feed.

That's it!

Unless the app you use monitors your usage, asks for your name, or other personal information you can be pretty confident that your personal data is not stored and sold.

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