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For all newsletter lovers, today we present to you Kill the Newsletter! a tool as simple as it is ingenious. The newsletters, as we already know and as we have already faced in the past, in recent years they have been making a comeback. The problem is that the vast majority of the newsletters we receive also contain tracking systems (such as i tracking pixels).
Of course, there are some ways to protect yourself. In the meantime, for example, it is certainly useful to obscure your email address using tools such as AnonAddy or others similar.
How to block email tracking pixels?
However, this protects your real email address but it does not necessarily protect you from tracking systems even if some providers, such as DuckDuckGo Email Protection, promises to “clean” from all tracers the forwarded email.
Many providers also, such as Proton Mail, allow you not to automatically load the images (and therefore also the tracking pixels) of the emails. This is an option that we always strongly recommend using and only uploading external images when necessary. Proton Mail It also has a data protection system tracers which allows you to upload images by blocking the tracers and hiding your IP address and location 1.
They are all valid methods and today, with Kill the Newsletter!, we offer you a new one especially if you are a die-hard RSS.
In fact, this tool allows you to transform the emails received in a specific email inbox into a feed RSS and therefore read it wherever you want. This system Not will automatically protect you from tracking pixels, you will have to block them yourself using any defense system such as uBlock Origin, Brave Browsers, TrackerControl and so on.
But how does Kill the Newsletter work?
As we tell you, it is a very simple tool, even to use. In the meantime he is free and a open code so you could install it yourself on your server. Alternatively you can use the free service offered by those who developed the project.
By going to the official website, simply enter the name of the newsletter you want to follow and then press Create Inbox. At this moment an email box will be created with a unique and random address and domain @kill-the-newsletter.com. This is the email you will need to use to subscribe to the desired newsletter.
Just below you will find the feed RSS which you can copy and paste to your reading program RSS favorite. That's all! From this moment any email received on the email address you have created can automatically be read via that feed RSS.
In this way you can comfortably read your newsletter on any device without necessarily having to bother with your email inbox.
Last note: some newsletter systems such as the very famous Substack already have their own built-in feed system, just add /feed to the newsletter address (example). However, we believe it is necessary and important to always have an alternative at hand: things can change from one day to the next without warning and above all there is not only Substack and many other newsletter systems do not allow this.
Conclusions
Furthermore, this is a system designed for newsletters but making an email received on a specific address reachable via Browsers and with a feed RSS personalized can be a useful tool in other cases too.
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