Wallabag

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Let's talk about software today Open source ¹ very interesting for managing news to read. Wallabag in fact it automatically extracts the article you intend to read calmly and keeps it warm for you.

To understand better: it's a sort of alternative to Pocket, the application present in Firefox to save interesting articles. PocketIn fact, it is not seen in a positive way by everyone. This is because its privacy policy until very recently he was quite eloquent on the need for tracking. In fact, inside we found phrases like: “We may also share your IP address and device ID in working with third parties who assist us in delivering advertisements to you.” ².

The policy changed recently and that phrase has been removed so things may have improved. Even if within the site of Pocket it is always present Google Analytics and their Android app contains three tracers of statistics ³.

In short, being tracked because we want to read and keep some articles aside may seem excessive to us. So in case we decide to move away from Pocket, the good comes to our rescue Wallabag.

Wallabag: Track your favorite items without being tracked!

Wallabag it is in fact software Open source ¹ and free: anyone can install it independently on their own server and manage everything for free. If, however, we are not capable (or do not want to) we can rely on official site where, after a 14-day free trial, you can pay €1 per month or €9 per year.

It seems like a more than decent price for those who don't want it give away your privacy. In fact, thanks to the subscription, no data will ever be sold or used to profile us sell ourselves to the highest bidder.

Are present extensions for all Browsers most famous, in this way you just need to press the right button to save an article to read later calmly. There is also an application Android and one for iOS in addition to obviously being able to do everything via the web.

Try it for free

If we have intrigued you, all you have to do is test the trial version from theirs official site and understand if it's right for you, also because we have only told you about part of the potential of this application!

Unlike Pocket, the Android application from Wallabag it is totally private of tracers ⁴ and not only. It is also featured on F-Droid.

We add, upon notification, that there are also free instances of Wallabag. Since it is free software, anyone can install it on a server and possibly also give the registration to third parties: how this for example.

Last thing, not least, Wallabag.it it is hosted in Europe and more precisely in France ⁵.

We leave you the useful links:

• This is the official site of the software, free and installable anywhere and by anyone.

• This is theInstance Wallabag official, if you are not capable of managing it independently, they will do it for you only €9 per year.

Alternatives to Wallabag:

• If you already have aInstance Of Nextcloud The application may be useful to you Bookmarks.
• Omnivorous, another alternative Open source ⁶ to save articles and read them later. It is available on multiple platforms also through extensions and smartphone applications (Android And iOS). It was also talked about above Feddit.

• Trove, a decentralized application currently without an Android or iOS application.

• Pinboard, it is not free but costs 22$ per year. Their policy, however, is decent and our data is not sold to third parties ⁷. An application is also available Open source, unofficial, for Android call Pinkt for Pinboard.
• Brace.to, an interesting free service (with the possibility of purchasing a premium service for €5.99 per year), Open source, encrypted and using blockchain. We always tend to look with suspicion and little interest at services that use blockchain, almost always unnecessarily. However Brace.to it works well and can be useful for saving your favorites and generally articles to read later. To do this, just use their extension or, after logging in, add to any address brace.to/

1. Code on GitHub[↩][↩]
2. Sharing of information[↩]
3. Pocket's Exodus Report[↩]
4. Wallabag Exodus Report[↩]
5. Privacy[↩]
6. source code Omnivorous[↩]
7. Pinboard Policy[↩]

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