Helpful review! Intro, pros, cons, all of it.

After using Pocket for a few years I unsubscribed after reading their Privacy Policy, since my reading list is my own business. Otherwise I love many of Pocket’s reading suggestions that pop up. Wallabag sounds good overall but can’t handle reading one more Privacy Policy, at least for this purpose.

Since then I’ve returned to copying reading URLs to my Mac’s Documents, in my Research folders. Mac’s Spotlight search tool is powerful and quick, so I can always find those files. In Spotlight settings (System Preferences), I can hide any folders for my privacy, so no one else can search those folders but me. Who needs our health browsing history, for example, sold to health insurance companies for all we know?

> I don’t use Firefox as my primary browser. I am a recent, in the last two years, Apple/Mac convert and am trying to stick with Safari.

I can understand that. I do strongly recommend Firefox, though. More privacy tools than Safari if I’m correct. One example among many: “Containers” add-on tool keeps any website I choose, that I visit, in its own silo. For example, my Facebook Container— so FB can’t track me from FB to other sites, or from other sites. I have many containers.