Privacy Tool Spotlight: FreshRSS

At the cat lab, it has been a banner year for moving away from surveillance capitalism ecosystems and toward privacy-respecting alternatives. From operating systems and office suites to streaming platforms, home automation, and security cameras, the goal stays simple. We want tools that respect your personal boundaries and your data. One area that often gets overlooked is the humble RSS reader. RSS is a simple way to subscribe to websites, blogs, news outlets, and more so new posts come straight to you instead of you hunting them down across the web. We're not going to lie about it. We're information junkies. From the top headlines to tech news, we're constantly scanning our feeds for interesting information. And let's not forget the "I Can Has Cheezburger?" feed. Plenty of tools can pull those feeds together, but they often come at a price. As we say, if it's free, your life experiences are the fee. These platforms log which articles you click, how long you spend reading them, and…