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FeedMail can now be installed as an app on your phone. The main benefit of doing so is that you can share URLs to FeedMail to quickly subscribe. If you are reading an interesting article or blog post simple share the URL to the FeedMail app to subscribe! This uses the share_target API which is currently only supported by Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome, Brave and Microsoft Edge (except on iOS where these browsers are based on Safari). You can still install and use FeedMail as an app on other browsers, but it will not be able to receive links for quick subscription. You can also share links to FeedMail from any app or browser no matter which browser it is installed from. Installing FeedMail To enable this share menu item you first need to install FeedMail as an app. This only needs to be done once. Open feedmail.org in a supporting browser and select "Install App" or "Add to Home Screen" from the menu. Then follow any prompts to complete installation....

We have created guides to subscribe to popular websites and services. We provide documentation on how to find the feeds of various services as well as third-party options for services that don't have feeds of their own. See the list at https://feedmail.org/how-to-subscribe . If you have tips for other sites, or would like us to add more sites feel free to reach out .

Update : FeedBurner is effectively disabled and no longer supports BrowserFriendly widgets. This post is obsolete but left up for historical reference.

In July 2021 Google disabled FeedBurner's email notification feature . This was used by many blogs to let their users subscribe by email. It was especially common with Blogger users via the "FollowByEmail widget" which was backed by FeedBurner. There are many alternatives for this widget with different feature sets. FeedMail is one option worth considering. In fact FeedBurner's shutdown was one of the motivating factors for the creation of FeedMail! Our founder wanted to provide email subscriptions to his blog, but all of the available options were expensive, difficult, had ads or were loaded with non-optional tracking links. Pros Multiple cost options: Free for the publisher. Each user that subscribes using FeedMail gets 400 updates free. (Or 1000 if you use a referral code ). This means that if you post weekly your users will be able to subscribe for more than 7 years at no cost. Paid by the publisher. Click here for information on how you can provide your users fre...

If you offer a blog with an RSS feed you can reach more users by offering email subscription as well. FeedMail provides an easy-to-integrate newsletter that has no cost to you. Just select one of the implementation strategies below. Implementation Options Link The easiest option is to provide a link to the subscribe page. First got to the FeedMail New Subscription page. Enter your website's URL and click "Go".  Then copy the URL from your browser's address bar. This the the URL to subscribe to your website! It should look something like https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example . You can then link to that URL from your site. For example if you are using raw HTML in your design it would look something like: <a href="https://feedmail.org/subscriptions/new?url= https%3A%2F%2Fyour-site.example ">Click here to subscribe by email.</a>  Subscribe Button To use a button simply add the following code to your website. ...

Some website both have a feed and offer email subscriptions themselves. This allows you to choose between the first-party newsletter and FeedMail. There are pros and cons to both options so we have assembled a list to help you make your decision. FeedMail Advantages Keep Your Email Private When you subscribe via FeedMail the website doesn't learn anything about you. This provides good privacy protection and you can rely on the FeedMail features you trust. No unsolicited communication. Their only way to reach you is via the feed that you subscribed to. Easy unsubscribe. Don't worry about confusing dark-patterns and dozens of "categories" that need to be unsubscribed from individually. There is also no concern that they quietly add you back to their lists in the future. No data selling. FeedMail's privacy policy disallows using your data for anything but running and improving FeedMail. This means that your data stays private. No Tracking While feeds can contain tra...

YouTube disabled native email notifications in August 2020 . Luckily FeedMail lets you get these notifications back, and they are better than ever! Why Email Notifications? At FeedMail were are a huge fan of email notifications! Synced across all of your devices. Easy to sort and filter. Very customizable. You can decide if you want them to buzz your phone, ding your computer, both, or quietly file into a folder for you to check when you have some downtime. One place for all of your updates. No need to remember to log into YouTube, Odysee, Vimeo, PeerTube and Nebula on every device. Better than Native? We think so! No need to create a YouTube account. Per-video notifications, no batching to mess up your filters and workflow. You can pick a different email address for each channel for easy filtering. Not everything needs to go to your primary address. Instructions Find the channel that you want to subscribe to. If you are watching a video you can get to the channel but clicking the cha...