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Comment by mfnex | Hacker News Reader

Q: what now?

A: RSS of course. Seriously. See https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/09/rss-is-still-great.-and-need...

Pick your sources, COMPLAIN if they do not publish an RSS feeds, and read "news" including posts from personal blogs, through an aggregator. At YOUR pace, without tracking and pushing.

While we are at this, wy/how is Twitch "completely unusable" ?h Just curious, really.

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Sites should have rss but it's not social. There's no way for me to comment on your protocol. It's a syndication protocol: that's only part of a social system.

Not OP, and not points that make Twitch "unusable", but some changes that make it unpleasant:

- Really pushing softcore porn by putting their icons in the sidebar and over home page by default (they disappear once your stream viewing history is something other, but default behavior is to recommend it to all)

- Adding more noise to chat: Obnoxious particle effects once "enough people pay money to Amazon", highlighted flashy banners

- Overlays over the video that you can't turn off, makes the player very heavy, popups over the player that you have to click to close

- Autoplaying media on home page

- Strange inconsistent regulations of streamers (who/when they get banned and how long)

- Strange attempts at noisy virtue signalling - such as overlaying sombreros and maracas on emote images for "Hispanic celebration month", which is so unnecessary and comically unthoughtful

gonna have to switch back to RSS, you're right. know of any good basic RSS readers on Windows 10/iPhone that you'd suggest? twitch is completely unusable btw because of the insane policy changes that make no sense, the unusable copyright rules (literally some streamers have had cars go by that played music slightly too loud for 2 seconds and had their accounts terminated over that), and the ads, oh my god the ads. even with uBlock Origin and pi-hole on Firefox, they still get through and there's upwards of 5-10 (and sometimes even on bigger streams 15!!!) 30 second adverts about every 15-30 minutes and everytime you switch streams. only way to block them is to use a VPN/proxy into a smaller country which doesn't yet have ads, and even then, you'll get the infamous "purple screen of death" where it'll close out the stream and tell you to disable your adblocker and proxy

I've been using Feedly every since Google Reader shut down and I generally love it.

I switched to Reeder after Feedly started showing me ads. So far, so good.

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