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As a maintainer of an RSS reader app which has its own inventory for suggested feeds, one of the uphill battles is sudden removal of RSS support from various sites. I have a list o…

These are still four more steps then what it takes to directly install from the Play Store. Most people would view any of these four steps as hurdle. > And you won't need to go to …

We have created a privacy focused, ad-free, material designed RSS reader app for Android - Plenary. No login/account creation required. No analytics/trackers. No ads. No servers to…

You can disable these annoying prompts by going to https://myaccount.google.com/permissions and disabling "Google Account sign-in prompts". Ideally it should have been user opt in …

You can try my app Plenary - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spians.ple... which perfectly suits your needs. It doesn't have ads or tracking and doesn't require a…

You can purchase Plenary premium to support the app development. Premium will give unlock many features such as - Pure black theme - Automatic cloud backups - Ability to directly o…

Hi, Thank you for trying out Plenary. 1. Plenary doesn't use Chrome as the browser (it uses Android WebView that uses chrome engine internally). We didn't go with custom tabs as we…

No, Plenary is not open source

Hey HN, We've created an RSS feed and offline reader app for android that doesn't show ads/track your activity. The app is a combination of a feature rich RSS reader, minimalist po…

Yes I agree, could've been clearer upfront about it being a premium feature. Thanks!

> Interestingly parent’s plug is a dark pattern to avoid dark patterns! Sorry I didn't find any dark patterns here. If you can elaborate more on this, that would be really helpful.…

Yes, I have been using your feed and it's amazing. Thanks!

Thank you for trying it out. Plenary has monthly, quarterly and yearly subscription options and even has a lifetime purchase plan. That is the way support the development of the ap…

Yup. RSS is the way to go for browsing Reddit without all the dark patterns. Self plug - you can try my app Plenary on Android (no ads/trackers) - https://play.google.com/store/app…

Also from the same blog > We know that playing nice with others isn’t exactly your MO, but if you can’t offer people an open platform that brings everything together into one place…

Not exactly related but how is Microsoft's approach to Teams any different than Google's approach to Google Chat (or Hangouts Chat) that also is component of G-suite?

> Secondly, with the kind of minuscule market share DDG has, they or their users can hardly get impacted by a couple hours' block I would like to know the exact market share of DDG…

> This has led to a regular number of collisions between foreign tech companies and India regulators, whether it be Facebook’s attempts to introduce Free Basics or WhatsApp payment…

Yes this is the way for these companies to enter into India's emerging market, but it's getting worse for the end consumer. A lot of "Tech Gurus" in India are suggesting Jio apps a…

So out of $10 billion that they announced to invest in India in next five to seven years, 45% of it is in Jio? Jio is already on the way to monopolize the telecom sector and with a…

Here's the RSS feed of the blog https://github.blog/feed/ I am using https://github.blog/category/engineering/feed/ for engineering category