Have you ever wanted to read a RSS feed but you couldn’t because it required you to enter a username and password and your RSS reader didn’t support it? Well FreeMyFeed has just come along to release your RSS feed from that particular prison - including your Gmail email.
Yes, that’s right. Among the many services FreeMyFeed supports is Gmail. You can now read your Gmail email (and pretty much any other password-protected feed) inside Google Reader using FreeMyFeed.
FreeMyFeed is basically a proxy service or a middle-man. You give FreeMyFeed your RSS feed, your username and password and it then gives you a replacement RSS feed to give to your RSS reader. Then everytime your RSS feed updates, it passes through the FreeMyFeed proxy and onto your RSS reader.
It’s smooth and works without a hitch. You only have to decide if you trust this service with your usernames and passwords.
Check out FreeMyFeed @ www.freemyfeed.com
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What if you first burn your feed with feedburner. Feedburner is acquired by google so if you don’t trust them you should not use gmail because I here a lot of people who don’t trust them.
You can’t burn an authenticated feed with Feedburner.
I don’t really get the point of this, first of all you are opening up a password protected feed, to anybody who guess the right URL of the feed (yes, okay, it will most likely be a 49 character long obfusticated URL, but my point still stands, you are opening it up.) Second, you are giving them the login details, and I don’t know about anybody else, but a site which asks you for login details for a site which is not the site you are on, sounds extremely like phishing to me, and I would rather just login to Gmail, than have a feed of my messages, especially if you can just login to ‘Google Services’ (or whatever they call it now) and the Atom feed just checks your cookies and authenticates you that way! Finally, if you really, really need password-protected feeds, simply get a better feed reader.
My guess is that it was created primarily for people that are active at multiple password-protected blogs/journals/discussion sites, or have a webmail account that they’d like to be able to monitor without installing another extension/program or visiting the sites manually over and over. A lot of people use RSS/Atom on a computer that they can’t add software to, or read their feeds from more than one location, so simply installing a more powerful desktop client isn’t an option.
As far as security is concerned, the only password-RSS-enabled site I can think of that might have one’s own personal info would be Gmail — and I don’t think their RSS posts included enough of the email to convey anything damaging. I’d be far more concerned about feeds that have “trusted friends/family only” posts from blog/journal sites, considering some of the things people confide could do serious damage if it became known to others.