RSS Aggregator or use a Browser for Viewing News?

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Hello!

I’m curious what the advantages and disadvantages are for using RSS and the aggregators listed versus just going to the individual news websites.

Currently I do not see the purpose of switching to them, as many major news sites (The Associated Press, Reuters, my local news etc.) seem to be giving up on RSS and no longer maintaining them. This leads to the choice of either using a RSS-generation service or hosting a scraping tool yourself. Both of these options seem much less private than just going to the website on a recommended browser.

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I cant imagine checking over 50 sites, and try to remember my progress on each site, everyday, just to catch up with news.

Definitely RSS reader, for sources gave up on RSS, I either ask them to support it, or I would just give up on them,

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I tried RSS readers once and while it definitely has advantages (mainly if you want to check a lot of pages) it seemed to me less anonymous than visiting these pages with the Tor Browser.

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I think the main point of RSS is not gaining privacy; it is spam prevention, managing content consumption, and being free from content algorithms. With the additional convenience of doing all of these from a single place without needing accounts.

If the news site itself doesn’t offer RSS, you can convert their Twitter feed into RSS using a Nitter instance that supports RSS. Publishments are generally the same as those on their websites(for most major news outlets). Alternatively, you can try creating feeds with websites like PolitePaul.

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