Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

Post by oefrha » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

simonw wrote: post #7

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…

Post by tedunangst » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 5:52 AM UTC

asiachick wrote: post #202

saagarjha wrote: post #192

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I'm not even sure their engineers understand how annoying it is. They've implemented links in such a horrible way, and it's gotten worse with time (for example, there is a feature where if you open a link and have the right associated app installed, it will open the link in the app. There used to be a way to force the link to open in Safari in case you didn't want to open the app; it'd show up in the top right. The f…

this sounds like a privacy issue and should be filed as a bug. if I can't open a link in a private tab in Safari (or ideally the browser of my choice) then I can not protect my privacy. The launched app will get to record my activity or via the non private browser tab the site will track me. file a bug / feedback that this is not in line with Apple's privacy first stance

Post by Hackbraten » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 6:09 AM UTC

asdff wrote: post #78

erikpukinskis wrote: post #34

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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.

MacOS doesn't even hijack what you want it to hijack. I have to set every .sh I make to open in text edit manually, and I still sometimes get prompts to search the app store for an app to deal with these spooky .sh files even with textedit listed as default on the right click menu.

Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 6:47 AM UTC

notadoc wrote: post #49

Apple News is yet another walled garden, it's not too surprising they'd remove the ability to customize your content experience beyond what they specifically approve, is it? Personally I still miss Google Reader and consider the demise of that service as one of the biggest losses to the open web.

Post by superkuh » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

stevenicr wrote: post #138

jauke wrote: post #100

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I consume most content via RSS. It certainly doesn’t feel dead to me. There are ways to get Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content into RSS too if that’s what you need.

I am interested in getting these three as rss feeds, not that I use them very much, much getting them into a reader would help others very much. a quick search shows some things saying public pages can be made RSS, but nothing like a bot that can suck in what your wall or whatever would be and push it into a feed that can be read otherwise. Here's to hoping the twitter open api thing and the few stories about portabl…