Mastodawn

An update on the CBC RSS feed situation. It seems they're blocking specific user-agents, including NetNewsWire.

Their support team responded:
> Unfortunately accessing our content via RSS feed is not popular with many users and so resources are generally being allocated to other areas and fixes for glitches with current RSS feeds are not being prioritized. I'm sorry we don't have better news.

#CBC #RadioCanada #RSS

Mar 5

Oh hello, the CBC RSS feed just updated
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Oh allô, le fil RSS du service anglais de Radio-Canada vient de se mettre à jour

#CBC #RadioCanada #RSS

Eric Goodwin Mar 2

@EdwinG who needs the conservatives to cancel CBC when they’re doing it to themselves. The mobile homepage has like 12 articles at a time that are completely irrelevant to me

@auxonic That's their decision.

I have subscribed to another news source when I read their email. It won't have local news though, because only CityNews and CBC give local news in a non-bandwidth killing method.

Young Thos Mar 2

@EdwinG @auxonic so much citizen-hostile behaviour coming out of the CBC these days. A few weeks ago I had to beg and plead several times to obtain stream URLs for the various Radio-Canada feeds — even though their website clearly states that I am allowed to ask for and receive them — and in the end they wouldn't give me all of them.

Entitled complacent contempt for the public, is the only way I can describe it. A worrying trend I see in other public services too…

https://podnews.net/article/radio-canada-versus-open-podcasting

@NeueWelle Radio-Canada no longer does podcasts.

They actually filed a legal request to remove their podcasts from podcast apps

@auxonic

Radio-Canada threatens podcast app using its podcast feeds

One half of the Canadian public service broadcaster doesn't understand how podcasting works; and threatens podcast developers instead

Podnews

Young Thos Mar 2

@EdwinG @auxonic wow, what a joke. Either you publish an RSS feed or you don't, it's really simple. Crazy that they block NetNewsWire and go after podcast clients.

It's now easier for me to listen to the BBC and Radio-France than it is to the CBC and Radio-Canada. Quite shameful

@NeueWelle their English and French services don’t communicate with one another.

So you can subscribe to podcast from the CBC but you can’t do RSS. However Radio-Canada‘s RSS feeds work, but they don’t do podcast anymore.

On both services, news and podcasts are on different platforms.

@auxonic

Young Thos Mar 2

@EdwinG for a while they had very similar apps, almost two different skins of the same thing, but it's all different now. The only thing they seem to have in common is the account system. Both CBC and Radio-Canada serve the login window from the same address and confuse my password manager 🫠

But each manages to find their own way of being uniquely user-hostile 😅

@NeueWelle Good news… only the front page is common.

You can’t login to a CBC account from Radio-Canada and vice versa. It would make too much sense if it would!

Also, their CEO said last year that they are looking at unifying their platforms to reduce costs. So there’s a little bit of hope.

Eric Goodwin Mar 2

@EdwinG @NeueWelle I loath paying directly for CBC but I do… CBC gem is about $7/month and ICI.tv is like $15… and you can’t get the alternate language content even for CBC owned shows. Drives me nuts.

Pete Anderson 🚲Mar 2

@EdwinG Oh man, I listened to beacoup des balados de radio-canada quand j'étudias pour mes examens français!

At a time when the Official Languages Act is requiring government departments and agencies to take proactive positive measures to support official language minority communities, making French-language programming harder to access is a proactive regressive measure.

WTL Mar 2

@EdwinG @NeueWelle @auxonic 😳🤦🏻

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@EdwinG
Blocking specific agents isn’t something that requires a fix. That’s a deliberate choice.