I love reading thoughtfully crafted content, but I don't want my inbox filled with email alerts, and I don't have time to check every blog's website to see if they've posted anything recently.
Will RSS ever make a comeback? :(
So that was what was going on. It could find links on the frontpage and it could parse titles and dates from those.
You apparently don't need feeds. No AI required.
It's one of the big things I'll credit Wordpress for - they enable RSS by default so a lot of sites support it without even meaning to.
Now they've expanded into threat intelligence and I'll get popups asking me if I'm interested in the latest CVE or whatever, but I just dismiss those and read my blogs and comics. Not shilling, in fact I work for a competitor, but I use it every day!