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by SecurityLagoon 1958 days ago
RSS is still cool... Right???

Seriously though RSS has never died and tonnes of us still use it despite the efforts of close-walled companies like Facebook and Twitter disabling it on their services. It is the only way I like to consume my news, particularly tech news, as there are just too many sources to do it any other way.

There are some services/clients that try to do what you describe and filter your feeds to emphasise keywords, authors etc.. that you are interested in. They are generally pretty immature though and I would welcome some better systems for this, as long as it is transparent what they are including and excluding.

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For larger news sites the RSS feed barely even write out the click-baity title yet alone the content’s summary unfortunately.

(Is there an open source app that fetches and scrapes sites instead of the subscription model?)

>(Is there an open source app that fetches and scrapes sites instead of the subscription model?)

App for android Handy news reader does that.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ru.yanus171.feedexfork/

https://github.com/yanus171/Handy-News-Reader/releases