newsboat VS gobble

If you're using https://newsboat.org, you can add a filter (killfile) to remedy this:

  ignore-article "*" "title =~ \"#shorts\""

I use newsboat.

> Have you used any modern RSS reader recently like inoreader, they load the content of the page without visiting the publishing website.

I'm happy with newsboat[1]; but I'm not surprised that people have integrated scraping into RSS readers.

Fundamentally, that's not a problem with RSS, that's a war between scrapers and content providers. If the email newsletter model persists long enough, I'd expect that people will come out with "newsletter readers" that scrape websites too.

I'm not sure there's a good long-term solution to the problem. Aside from constant vigilance (obfuscation).

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1. https://newsboat.org/

So, I installed a terminal RSS reader called Newsboat and added the feed to it. I have it always running in a terminal, and the scores refresh every minute. I can open the Cricinfo link in a browser by selecting a match and typing o.

Not at the moment. There is an open Github issue asking for that feature, however, no idea if/when that will be implemented: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/904

Here's part of my newsboat config (works great for subscriptions):

Newsboat RSS / Feed reader

Che rss feader usate? Io per il momento uso Newsboat su Desktop e Feeder su Mobile

Gobble

Gobble Gobble hides your current window before launching an external program

I don't think we'll ever see a 'best' as there are too many variables now. I can seamlessly switch back and forth just by pressing ,+V in QB and closing Edge to go back (uses Gobble (like swallow or devour but faster)). I think most people are using more than one browser on desktop nowadays.

Gobble: faster than i3-swallow (wm agnostic and new): https://github.com/EmperorPenguin18/gobble

I've created an alternative to Devour (the window-manager agnostic window-swallower) in Rust. I submitted a pull request to fix an annoying problem with Devour and nothing happened, so I took matters into my own hands and created Gobble. Not only did I fix that problem, but I ended up with better performance than Devour! Here is the GitHub link: https://github.com/EmperorPenguin18/gobble