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My personal firewall flagged the fact that the RSS Reader is trying to connect to the Internet. Why?

April 26, 2017Connect fact firewall Flagged internet reader RSS

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My personal firewall flagged the fact that the RSS Reader is trying to connect to the Internet. Why?

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The RSS Reader application needs to contact the Internet occasionally to see if there are any messages it needs to display. The application will also send back anonymous statistics (such as the number of clicks on a particular link) to our server. These are the only reasons why the RSS Reader needs to access the Internet so you should allow it through your firewall.