How could anyone find out which sites are you following using an RSS feed? And I mean in a broad way: can the site track you? Can ISP? Network managers?

Let’s say you want to follow a bunch of political sites that you don’t want to be easily attached to, is RSS a good way to do it? Are there extra precautions to take?

My first thought would be that it’s the same as using any other browser, so not a great way to be private. Am I wrong?

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They could observe a connection to the server, big difference. If the site is on a WordPress domain, that IP might lead to a load balancer that manages hundreds of sites.

Of course the reverse is also true, so for for example Facebook, of you hit one of their IPs, then its obvious what you’re accessing

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