Building Feedly

There has been a couple of questions regarding feedly privacy in my inbox. I will try to address the question here so that everyone benefit from it and the answer can be further clarified if necessary.

Question:
What part of the feedly information gets shared with other users.

Answer:
1. Other people can look you up on feedly using your name and email address. When they find you, they get to also see you profile picture if you have one set. They can at that point follow your recommendations and annotations.

2. When someone follows your annotations and recommendations, they only get to see that and nothing else. So your privacy is completely protected unless you *explicitly* take the action of annotating or recommending an article/video.

Other tools try to infer how interesting an article is based on how much time you spent reading it and/or if you clicked on a link or viewed a video. We consciously decided to do *none* of that.

Question:
Does feedly search keeps track of my search history?

Answer:

The answer is no. The integration of the search result is perform directly on the client. Feedly does not track at all what keywords people search. The search integration component only tracks at the global level what percentage of users disable the search feature so that we get a sense of if it is valuable or not. So far, less than 0.1% of the users have disabled the component.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.