# Add Newsflash for 'News Aggregators' **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/add-newsflash-for-news-aggregators/15814 **Category:** Tool Suggestions **Tags:** completed **Created:** 2023-12-24T20:30:38Z **Posts:** 15 ## Post 1 by @anon97654407 — 2023-12-24T20:30:38Z [https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2360](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2360) Newsflash is a privacy-friendly, beautiful, simple and easy to use RSS/Atom reader/News Aggregator for Linux. It is only available as a Flatpak. It has the ability to connect to NextCloud News or Inoreader to get all your feeds in the app, but it can be used offline. Not only that as it has a very beautiful GTK4 interface. Flathub link to download : > **[Install Newsflash on Linux | Flathub](https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.news_flash.NewsFlash)** > > Keep up with your feeds GitLab : > **[news-flash / news_flash_gtk · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk)** > > GitLab.com --- ## Post 2 by @anon49304593 — 2023-12-24T23:38:41Z I use NewsFlash daily and I absolutely love it, this would be a great replacement for GNOME Feeds in the recommendations. --- ## Post 3 by @anon97654407 — 2023-12-25T14:31:22Z I did make a PR, but all Netlify checks for adding the NewsFlash .png file just failed --- ## Post 4 by @pri.6ygiu — 2023-12-26T02:51:10Z Looks like Reeder for macOS :heart: --- ## Post 5 by @anon97654407 — 2023-12-26T15:15:34Z I fixed the Netlify problem. --- ## Post 6 by @anon97654407 — 2024-01-06T20:08:03Z Any updates on that? [@team](/groups/team) --- ## Post 7 by @anonymous133 — 2024-01-18T20:49:14Z Can it be added? --- ## Post 8 by @jerm — 2024-01-27T10:11:56Z Great. Better than GNOME Feeds. @dngray [News Aggregators - Privacy Guides](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/news-aggregators/?h=#gnome-feeds) GNOME Feeds [website](https://gfeeds.gabmus.org/) seems dead and last updated 10 months ago. --- ## Post 9 by @dngray — 2024-01-27T10:13:19Z This is something that needs review, I haven’t personally had the time to do it but will look at this week. --- ## Post 10 by @dngray — 2024-01-27T10:31:49Z So had a bit of a look at it just now, there’s a few things I dislike about this over gfeeds. The first being can’t seem to select any text, which is quite unusual for a program which displays text. The second being that Gfeeds has the ability to block javascript and advertising. On the positive side I think newsflash’s display of folders is better, and and introduction re adding an RSS service and introductory/discovery pages. People could argue though as there is no way to block adverts, or javascript from running gfeeds might be better for privacy. Your point about gfeeds not really being maintained though is valid. I wish there was a clear winner. --- ## Post 11 by @jerm — 2024-01-27T12:25:18Z There’s an option to enable it Preferences → Views → Article View → Allow selection > **[I cannot select the text within the article. (#552) · Issues · news-flash /...](https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk/-/issues/552)** > > Currently, I am unable to select the text within the articles while reading RSS feeds. Sometimes, it is necessary for me to select valuable content. Is this a... Idk much about the ad blocking features but fluent reader seems to also lack it [https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader/issues/444](https://github.com/yang991178/fluent-reader/issues/444) RSS Guard seems to support adblocking [Built-in Web Browser & AdBlock — RSS Guard documentation](https://rssguard.readthedocs.io/en/stable/features/browseradblock.html) and [javascript disabled](https://rssguard.readthedocs.io/en/stable/variants.html#variants) in their lite version which had an addition request open here [RSS Guard](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/rss-guard/15513). But I didn’t understand what @anon63378630 meant by “Eh, I was expecting some security focus by the name, but no it looks like the opposite.” --- ## Post 12 by @anon97654407 — 2024-01-27T13:43:38Z For the AdBlock/JS thing, it shouldn’t be necessary to have this feature in NewsFlash because in my knowledge, it doesn’t have the capability of browsing the website’s article directly from NewsFlash with a built-in web browser, you only get the raw RSS content and their thumbnails. Whereas GNOME feeds and RSS Guard does have AdBlock/No-JS features because they have built-in browsers that people would use to browse their articles without having 20 ads. > [@jerm](#): > > GNOME Feeds [website](https://gfeeds.gabmus.org/) seems dead and last updated 10 months ago. On that note, the certificate for their website seems to be expired since November 2023. --- ## Post 13 by @dngray — 2024-01-27T14:08:45Z > [@jerm](#): > > Preferences → Views → Article View → Allow selection Ah yes, that’s it. Not sure how I missed that (I did look in there). It’s a strange default to have. > [@anon97654407](#): > > you only get the raw RSS content and their thumbnails. Whereas GNOME feeds and RSS Guard does have AdBlock/No-JS features because they have built-in browsers that people would use to browse their articles without having 20 ads. Yeah now I totally see that. If I’m being honest I prefer newsflash in this regard because it will filter more of the article. If people open the article that’s probably better done by their regular browser. People who use RSS are generally only interested in the text and images. Would support replacement then especially with the lack of commits to gfeed. --- ## Post 14 by @anon97654407 — 2024-01-27T14:50:51Z > [@dngray](#): > > Would support replacement then especially with the lack of commits to gfeed. There are pretty recent commits from 1 to 6 months, but these are only for updating translations. Speaking of replacement, this should be another topic on this forum and another associated PR. --- ## Post 15 by @dngray — 2024-01-27T14:52:26Z There is already a PR opened for that [#2374](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2374). There is no point having both and Newsflash is arguably better. We won’t likely need any further discussion about gfeeds. --- ## Post 16 by @jonah — 2024-02-12T06:17:43Z #completed > **[Add NewsFlash (#2360) · privacyguides/privacyguides.org@93081f8](https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/commit/93081f84c72fa79406b1a26d4205ff6647e97eb5)** > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Gray