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Is there a #privacy preserving alternative to MSN/Yahoo news that let's you read news scraped from several sources on 1 platform, without having to enter the #news websites with all the tracking?
in reply to Marcin Lis (Fox)

@fox So MSN / Yahoo just display the RSS news? Any simple reader you can recommend? Thank you 😀
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

On an Apple device I recommend @NetNewsWire.

Other devices, @Vivaldi browser has it built in (and is a generally good and privacy-protecting browser), and Thunderbird and I hear Outlook email readers do too.

Often, you can add just the news site's homepage to your reader and it will find the feed(s) automatically.

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in reply to Marcin Lis (Fox)

@fox Wow thanks for letting me make a wishlist ❤
How about: Android, Linux and self-hosted? :)
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

Android - dunno, I'm not using it for years
Linux - NewsFlash, Liferea, QuiteRSS
Self-hosted - FreshRSS, maybe Tiny Tiny RSS (I prefer FreshRSS)
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

and yes, yahoo has RSS :)
uk.news.yahoo.com/rss/
And for services which don't provide RSS you can use rss generators, like rss.app
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

We can hope for an #RSS link hidden somewhere (most rss-generators are crap though).
#RSS
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

You might try the Vivaldi browser. It has a built-in RSS reader and it’s very privacy-focused.
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

FeedFlow, Feeder, Read You. These three are the ones I have seen on F-Droid official repo. If you search on the internet, you can find many other platforms
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

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in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

I accomplish this with an #RSS reader. Most news sites and blogs support RSS feeds, and many of those feeds give you full-text articles. Some only show the title & summary of the article in the feed, so you have to click through to read the full article, but you can skip subscribing to those if you want.
#RSS
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

I use Reeder Classic because it syncs my feeds through my iCloud account and runs on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac. But I am considering looking for a new one. I see posts all the time on here under the #RSS tag so there are plenty of folks who can offer more recommendations!
#RSS
in reply to Jer-Bear, Thunderous 😤

@jerbear

The person behind Reeder classic is even on the Fediverse, so it must be good ;)
@rizzi

For your new one you can check out the many great recommendations the other people from our community here gave me in the comments! there are even self-hosted ones : mastodon.social/@madeindex/115…


Is there a #privacy preserving alternative to MSN/Yahoo news that let's you read news scraped from several sources on 1 platform, without having to enter the #news websites with all the tracking?

in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

i do nextcloud self hosted with the news app. Use nextcloud news on Android and Newsflash on Linux
in reply to MadeInDex 📰🌎

RSS is your friend.

I use a proprietary RSS app, Feedly, which is available for all mobile and desktop environments. The easy synchronisation is important to me. But there are excellent open-source alternatives for every platform.