United StatesOptOut is a free news aggregation app that brings you the best of independent media. Read, listen to, and watch news content from financially independent sources—news you won’t find anywhere else. NEWS WITHOUT CORPORATE BIAS All content comes from news outlets that are financially independent. No corporate owners. No institutional bias. No conflicts of interest. OVERLOOKED STORIES THAT MATTER We feature investigative reporting and stories about climate, democracy, justice, labor, and other important topics. We have a special focus on voices traditionally underrepresented in the media industry. CURATED BY JOURNALISTS A diverse team of experienced journalists hand-curates the news of the day, not corporate algorithms designed to boost profitable content. PERSONALIZED EXPERIENCE Follow outlets and individual journalists to create your own personalized feed. PROTECTING YOUR DATA OptOut respects your privacy by design and does not sell your preferences or browsing history to advertising firms. A NONPROFIT RUN BY JOURNALISTS This app is a project of the OptOut Media Foundation, a nonprofit charity founded and led by journalists, not Big Tech. We’re funded by grants and by you, our audience, not corporations or Wall Street. Opt Out of the corporate media. Opt in to independent news you can trust.
Kind of pokey
I like being exposed to some publications I haven’t seen before, but the app is kind of slow in comparison to the RSS feeds I follow with Inoreader.
United StatesCollects your data
Disappointed to see from reading their privacy policy that they collect far more personal data than their App Privacy Details suggest. Hard pass.
United StatesPixel tags?
I was about to sign up as interested in the journalistic concept as in checking out the news aggregator functionality. I read a few opening paragraphs of the T&C before I scrolled quickly to the privacy policy. And this is what I saw: Pixel tags and other similar technologies. Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Services and response rates. I’m fine with the app owners tracking detailed app activity. But Yikes! using pixel tags to track activity outside the app? Yeah… no. Delete.
United StatesBest News App
This is my favorite news app! I love that I can follow local news, national news and the local paper from my home town. I also love that I can watch videos or podcasts while scrolling other articles.
United StatesPhenomenal app
Really grateful to the folks who created this — excellent tool.
United StatesDisappointing
News sources are few and it feels a little like a left wing alternative to what we read about as the right wing media ecosystem. Not so interested in replicating narrow orthodoxies as in reading interesting independent work. Maybe vary the sources or acknowledge content beyond US partisan politics?
United StatesStories I can’t find elsewhere
As someone who used to read corporate media, this app has made me realize just how many important stories and perspectives generally get overlooked. With this, I feel so much more informed, frankly!
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