It’s my daily news driver and the app I am spending most time in. Have to find ways to limit the amount of sources, though. FOMO is a factor.
Only annoying thing, but I guess out of this app‘s influence is that the embedded safari doesn‘t use the Adblock plugin. AFAIK that’s an iOS/Safari restriction. This leads to huge amount of ads on same pages I open directly in the app. Any clues maybe?
Based on the description it solves exactly your issue, but requires iOS 26/macOS 26.
Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.
I stopped using NextDNS when I forgot to cancel subscription and contacted then immediately to issue a refund. They ignored my request, were no answers at all.
I am not alone, this is a typical behavior. At least it was 3 years ago.
I started using this client a few days ago, in an effort to reduce my news addiction. By combining everything in a simple interface with chronological order, hope it helps avoid the flashy sources which make you scroll. Thanks to everything working on the RSS ecosystem
which is ironic, because podcasts are built on this technology, if i remember correctly. but yeah. people "got" podcasts but somehow have a hard time accepting rss/atom readers.
Actually, RSS was not unaccepted from my experience. Instead, demise of Google Reader with the desire of user capture (Medium, newsletters and in browser notifications) starved reader applications of RSS feeds.
It accelerated when browsers removed RSS readers, so nobody had an incentive to offer them.
Since people fed up, RSS started to reappear. It was never dead for me, but finding feeds were impossible. Now the people I care to read offer RSS feeds, and I'm a happy RSS user again.
Only annoying thing, but I guess out of this app‘s influence is that the embedded safari doesn‘t use the Adblock plugin. AFAIK that’s an iOS/Safari restriction. This leads to huge amount of ads on same pages I open directly in the app. Any clues maybe?
Based on the description it solves exactly your issue, but requires iOS 26/macOS 26.
Personally I use Adguard + their DNS. This combination is very good, but WebView blocking will be working with the DNS part, not content blocker. So alternative is PiHole.
I am not alone, this is a typical behavior. At least it was 3 years ago.
I use AdGuard DNS now.
Grateful for your hard work on this, Brent and team.
Ps: love the statement "it's like podcast, but for reading".
i have netnewswire and it's great!
It accelerated when browsers removed RSS readers, so nobody had an incentive to offer them.
Since people fed up, RSS started to reappear. It was never dead for me, but finding feeds were impossible. Now the people I care to read offer RSS feeds, and I'm a happy RSS user again.