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I'm happy to announce that FeedMail now has a documented privacy policy. This is our commitment to you that we don't sell your data or use it in any way other than as needed to operate, maintain and improve our service. Additionally we commit to not using your contact information for marketing purposes. That means that we won't spam you. If you want to stay up-to-date on FeedMail updates and product feature be sure to follow this blog . View the full details at https://feedmail.org/privacy-policy .

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...

 FeedMail now supports real-time updates for YouTube channel feeds. This means that you can get notified of new videos from your favourite channels within seconds of them going live. Finally it will be your turn to comment "First!" To subscribe to a YouTube channel with FeedMail simply go to the Add a Subscription page and paste the channel URL (example: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA3fPNfoQ-WJLLS1JI25w9Q ) into the URL field. Using FeedMail is a great way to follow your favourite creators. No "algorithm" to influence you. Watch what you want and never miss an upload. Videos from different platforms all end up in the same place, making it easy to follow creators no matter where they post. Also a great way to ease off of YouTube if you aren't a fan. Use multiple email addresses or filters to make your subscriptions work the way you want. This may sound like the WebSub support that we recently announced . However YouTube doesn't follow the WebSub standar...

 FeedMail now supports WebSub ! WebSub is a standard for real-time updates on the web. Feeds that support WebSub will have updates delivered to your email within seconds! No action is required to take advantage of these faster updates. For feed-owners WebSub means less resource usage as subscribers check for updates less often. If your feed doesn't yet support WebSub you should consider implementing it. It is easy and free! WebSub powered updates are currently being rolled out slowly and will be expanded to more and more supporting feeds over the next couple of days. Updates to our FAQ and Feed Owner FAQ are also incoming to answer common questions. In the meantime if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment on this post or email your questions to our support team . Update: As of 2021-Dec-14 WebSub is active for all feeds that support it.

To protect users against surprise charges, FeedMail covers the cost of sudden bursts of updates. The initial algorithm, only charging once a day, was too simple. Many feeds regularly see multiple updates a day and the burst-protection algorithm was artificially subsidizing these feeds. FeedMail is now using an updated algorithm to protect from bursts. The exact implementation is subject to change but is based on the following principles: Updates more than 24h apart are almost always charged. An average update rate is tracked per-feed. If a feed suddenly starts updating faster than the traditional rate the additional updates will not be charged. The average is updated over time, so if a feed continues updating at the elevated rate credit consumption will slowly increase to match the new update rate. FeedMail aims to be very low cost. To achieve this we need to keep our expenses predictable and fair. Otherwise we would need to overcharge some users to cover uncertainty and higher cost us...

I'm pleased to be sharing a project that I have been working on for a while and have been thinking about doing for even longer. FeedMail is a simple service that aims to get updates from your favourite websites to your email with no fuss and no nonsense. If you are already sold and want to follow some feeds simply go to feedmail.org to get started. How FeedMail Works FeedMail works using a set of technologies informally called RSS. FeedMail actually supports a variety of feed formats including Atom, RSS2 and RSS1. These feeds are created by websites and updated whenever new content is posted. FeedMail subscribes to these feeds on your behalf and forwards new entries to the email address of your choice. Many websites support these feeds. Just post the URL to an article or website that you want to subscribe to and FeedMail will show you the available feeds. For example the following websites support RSS: YouTube Channels Medium GitHub Releases Tumblr Many news sites Many more... RSS...