OptOut News

I downloaded this app thinking finally a unbiased news source that was neither Right or Left. All I found was Left wing sourced outlets? What’s with that? Why not give the people, completely neutral sources?

It gets increasingly difficult to find alternative sources of media in an era of tech censorship, particularly when the drumbeats of war are their loudest. I’m grateful this exists. Highly recommend.

I usually just see a “loading” screen. It eventually goes away, but takes way too long.

I like being exposed to some publications I haven’t seen before, but the app is kind of slow in comparison to the RSS feeds I follow with Inoreader.

Disappointed to see from reading their privacy policy that they collect far more personal data than their App Privacy Details suggest. Hard pass.

I was about to sign up as interested in the journalistic concept as in checking out the news aggregator functionality. I read a few opening paragraphs of the T&C before I scrolled quickly to the privacy policy. And this is what I saw: Pixel tags and other similar technologies. Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates. I’m fine with the app owners tracking detailed app activity. But Yikes! using pixel tags to track activity outside the app? Yeah… no. Delete.

This is my favorite news app! I love that I can follow local news, national news and the local paper from my home town. I also love that I can watch videos or podcasts while scrolling other articles.

Really grateful to the folks who created this — excellent tool.

News sources are few and it feels a little like a left wing alternative to what we read about as the right wing media ecosystem. Not so interested in replicating narrow orthodoxies as in reading interesting independent work. Maybe vary the sources or acknowledge content beyond US partisan politics?

The app and stories are great. One complaint I have is with the app. I get notifications on different stories, but when I click on the notification I’m sent to the Home Screen of the app instead of the specific story. This kind of kills interest because a lot of times, a specific story piques my interest, but then I don’t want to scroll through to search for that story. Instead. Just have the notification linked to the story it notified me of.