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Flym News Reader is a light Android feed reader (RSS/Atom)
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An Option to Change User Agent #688

Open dorrisowens opened 3 years ago

dorrisowens commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Usually when we connect to a site we share our IP address as well as useragent. While IP address can be hidden with VPN but the webview uses the User Agent which specify device model and can reveal a lot about a user.

Describe the solution you'd like

I Request you to add a feature to change user agent to a custom or some pre added user agents. This will not only protect privacy but will even help users to stay anonymous too as today even RSS links have implemented analytics which collects info like IP, location and Device model by useragent.

Thanks

cyberpunkbln commented 3 years ago

And not to forget the html-to-rssview option, flym can read the html-articles but some rss-news-provider block some free rss reader when she gives an user agent for what she are and then only TeaserView are possible and the full-content-view are advertising.

golem.de is the best example

The only technic are request the user agent and when Flym sends an actual firefox user agent, Flym will receive an fully html site for rss-view.

guiguid commented 3 years ago

Hi, an other tips : identify flym as googlebot in the user agent can give access to full feed, full html page, no ads, simple html page, facebook ...