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If you want RSS on Macos, take a look at Netnewswire: https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
I'm surprised they've not banned that because it replicates the functionality of one of their apps, or something.
There are a wealth of alternate calculator apps, calendar apps, camera apps, etc etc.
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I love newsbeuter, it's how I get all latest news about the death of RSS :)
Feels like there has been a bit of a resurgence lately, not that I have any hard data to back that up. The major players ie google and now apple have dumped it, but most blogs and news sites still have rss feeds.
Search for what you want, click "News", scroll to the bottom of the page and create an alert.
Then you can select "RSS feed" to get a custom feed for your search terms or news topic.
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I'm surprised they've not banned that because it replicates the functionality of one of their apps, or something.
Why would providing similar behavior to an OS app warrant a ban? Many many apps on various OSes supplement default OS apps.
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For the link hijacking, it's worth noting that Apple News only exists/is pre-installed in a handful of markets and is uninstallable. But yeah, baffling.
Yea, I love the fact that my macOS update is only to update Apple News which is unavailable in my region.
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I personally blocked quite a few channels [0] on Apple News on my iPhone and the experience is a lot better now consequently. Despite what Apple says about their curation policies, the vast majority of content of the channels I blocked was pure junk/clickbait. [0]: In alphabetical order: 9to5Mac, BGR, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Conde Nast Traveler, Cosmopolitan, Cult of mac, Electrek, FOOD & WINE, Forbes, iMangoss,…
I've blocked something like 50+ "sources" on Apple News, but more pop up every week or so. I refuse to believe they curate it at all.
Honestly I didn't even know that you could add RSS feeds to Apple News. But I already stopped using it, because no matter how often I thumbed-up real news, and thumbed-down clickbait and ads, the "front page" was always a frustrating mix of mostly clickbait and ads. I currently use the Google News app on my iPhone for "real" headline news, but I'm not super happy about it.
For example, I follow the Chicago Sun-Times. And every day Apple News shows me the Sun-Times horoscope. And every day I give it a thumb's down. Every. Single. Day.
400+ thumbs later, it still shows up every day.
Apple News was already flakey and unreliable in the sources (websites) it would allow to be added. With its highly limited geographical availability (years after launching) and its problematic focus on News+, I switched back to a plain RSS Reader to follow specific sites. Apple News seems like a niche product with hardly any technical effort put into it. In comparison, Google News, with its ads, generally looks like…
Which RSS reader do you use?
RSS support is going to keep on going downhill unless someone builds a more mainstream RSS experience. Most of the commercial options are focused on power users. So you have this negative cycle of sites dropping support, readers focusing on power users, regular users not using RSS -> continue the cycle.
The weirdest thing about this is that Apple News still hijacks links to Atom/RSS feeds - so if you click on one of those links in Mobile Safari you'll be bounced to the News app, which will then display an error. Here's a video I recorded of this behaviour: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1210622908143415297 I think I'd rather they displayed a dump of ugly XML in the browser, just so I could copy and paste the URL…
Apple's hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power. The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.
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Apple's hijacking of links, addresses, etc, is possibly their top abuse of power. The other possible top abuse is the way they block you in your group messages if you switch from iPhone to Android.
Can you expand please on the blocking group messages?