Author Topic: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service  (Read 856 times)

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Offline RoGeorgeTopic starter

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How can I find when some text blogs publish something new, without visiting them all, daily?

I prefer a dedicated standalone program in Ubuntu.  Or, maybe a Firefox plugin?  Sometimes I use other browsers, too, e.g. Pale Moon.

I don't want email notifications, don't want cloud services or to login to some provider, don't need to move from one device to another, and so on.  Just a dedicated local thing, with local stored data, free and open source.

How to subscribe to a blog?

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Re: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2020, 11:36:07 am »
RSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
ATOM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard)
Look for the small icon on the page. If they dont have it... well, someone please link an XKCD, of people who have no clue about web development.
 

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Re: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2020, 12:40:27 pm »
For now I've installed QuiteRSS, because it promised no ads, still curious what others prefer to use.

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Re: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2020, 05:16:49 pm »
Yeah the most common answer would be RSS, but I think many web sites have kind of stopped offering RSS?
And Firefox itself has stopped supporting it natively? Not sure why?
 

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Re: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2020, 08:28:23 am »
... still curious what others prefer to use.
Windows.
 

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Re: Subscribe to blogs without registering/login into yet another service
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2020, 05:00:04 pm »
Firefox claimed something like too much trouble/not enough resources to "modernize" it. Pale Moon still has it, and maybe others, but who knows for how much longer.
 


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