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Privacy friendly search alerts? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Sometimes I want to get updates on a news story, and it's small or local so the coverage is sparse. I'd like to get an alert when a new news story or social media post is published.

I think google has something like this. A more private or self hosted one would be nice

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[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't RSS do the trick?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with how I'd set that up. I usually find an existing RSS feed and follow it

edit: haven't used Google Alerts in a while. Looks like you can have it send an email without tying it to your account. That should work fine

[–] chimay@blendit.bsd.cafe 3 points 1 year ago

some mail clients, like thunderbird, can also handle rss feed, you then have an all-in-one solution.