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i've used google news as... well, i'll just compulsively open that and see what's going on. but they've "updated" it again, and there's just... loads more wasted space, crappy badly-customized content, since i never log in. i could live with it, but instead i am thinking: should i still be using this anyways? searching for "google news alternatives" resulted in... so much freaking spam. lots of sites, like quora, that i have learned to never bother clicking on. loads of other sites clearly just juicing the search results. nothing that seems written by a human. typical RSS is still a thing, right? so i think the thing to do is find a comfy RSS reader, then sit down and cobble together all the various news sources i care about? do major sites still do RSS? out of anything, this seems fairly plum to roll my own, but direction would help |
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RSS reader, still spam results. some of which were in the previous spam results. like: "Feedly" ? fuck this crap. stupid cutesy web 3.0 name. app/web only; i'm sure you have to log in. it's like wine: you can spot good (or bad) wine through... what did they name it, and what's the style of the label? there are about five separate categories there and once you know them it's easy to avoid the crap. and feedly, fuck no so let's try "desktop rss reader" instead of "rss reader" and i'm getting "RSS readers that work in windows 11" i think i'll just see what apt-get has on tap |
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What you want is Feedbro, RSS reader as a browser extension. Works in Firefox and Chrome. |
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it's still an obnoxious name but this looks OK so far, thx |
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i trust the federal news site of my government it can be very local though you know what i find amazing is wikipedia all the talk in the news about how many tanks and weapons germany is asked of made me wonder what are the other countries of the world doing so far. i found this is quite impressive. |
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i hadn't considered wikipedia for news; thanks. that it worries me a bit, though... that i read wikipedia like people play video games. that is, like, binging really. information makes me high so i think i should stick with RSS of interest. |
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its a fantastic resource if you look for something in specific |
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Wikipedia is infiltrated by the CCP and will not tell you how they ran over Hujin Tao with a tank in dreaded Chinaman Square. |
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i used to use igoogle but it was discontinued shortly after google reader so ive used theoldreader since about that time. the free version is limited to 100 feeds but its more than enough. |
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feedbro about works except it expects me to clear the million feeds i'm subscribing to before the toolbar icon will show me more. is there a way to just click next? or say, who gives a fuck about marking as read? but otherwise good so far. discovering how quaint local news sites can be with broken rss feeds |
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Yeah that's the one thing that's a bit funky. There's a main reload button, in blue on the left, that refreshes all feeds. But there's also a reload button on the right that refreshes the view of whatever folder or feed is currently selected. After refreshing all feeds, if you select a different folder or feed, that will also give you an updated view. |
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ohhhh wait are you talking about the mini view when you just click the toolbar button on the browser? I dunno I always open the full feed reader lol. |
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not going to read anywhere near everything; just need to plumb in the right taps for a roaring froth i can just pluck stuff from. so yeah, i just want a recent salad; don't care about stuff falling off the edge of the earth |
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"All Items" in the reader seems about it May as well hide it from the toolbar. |
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yeah. cool. this is working. some other glitches though, like why are spanish-language articles in here? |
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XLT has an RSS feed. it's broken |
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google nudes keeps flapping me back between old and new. it's an experiment |
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i'm merely using it to jog my memory and "oh yeah, the guardian" etc |
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you need to upgrade to newsTurbo, bro |
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feedbro has actually been p. good, thx tony. but it's very cumbersome to organize. that, does this even need to be a browser plugin? lots is readable over just RSS, and clicking a link works the same from a dedicated app. and also CNN puts some of the worst trash in their RSS feeds, just clearly "organic" advertising; most trendy sweater this season and they have a bajillion RSS feeds that overlap while, like, i managed to get a mere one (1) feed out of The Hill and Politico, who freaking rock for just... here's text, a photo; whole thing. i've just deleted the CNN "top stories" feed because that's the most rotten of the lot; prone to organic garbage. they still have stuff i want to read, but... this is like what fox news RSS would do, i imagine |
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