Fraidycat doesn't communicate with a central server - unless your browser syncs Fraidycat's settings to a central server.

The Fraidycat web extension doesn't access websites as you visit them. It asks for permission to access all websites because it is fetching websites in the background (without using your credentials).

Follow Support

Feeds (RSS, Atom or JSON Feed). This is how Fraidycat reads blogs, Tumblr, Medium, Mastodon, micro.blog, Wikipedia, Kickstarter or Stack Overflow. If only every network used RSS!

Twitter, Instagram, SoundCloud. These sites don't support RSS, so Fraidycat does its best to pick things out of their web pages.

Pinboard, YouTube and Reddit. These sites do offer RSS, but it's not advertised very well. So Fraidycat figures out where to find the RSS feeds for you.

Twitch. Fraidycat now also shows when a follow is live.

TiddlyWiki. Fraidycat reads the whole wiki and treats it like a giant RSS feed. Be aware that giant wikis may load down Fraidycat.

What's Coming Next?

I'd like to offer a personal search box for your follows.

Perhaps even a keyword filter that will notify you when that keyword comes up in a follow.

Mobile support. If you use Firefox, I believe I can offer this on iOS and Android with sync between all of them.

Let you use your credentials to follow private Facebook and Instagram accounts.

The ability to reply and share by way of the extension.