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Michał Paluchowski@pluralistic some RSS readers, like FreshRSS I'm using, also support feeds from parsed HTML with content selected by XPath (or other means). This way I can have feeds for websites that don't publish RSS.
ploum@mpaluchowski @pluralistic : this approach is automatized and crowdsourced to extract the real content from enhshitified webpages.
ftr-site-config is a communautary project to create xpath rules for websites (more than 2000 websites supported currently)
unmerdify is a python library using those rules to parse a webpage.
#Offpunk is a command-line browser using unmerdify by default when available to read a website.
Say goodbye to the enshitified Web!
Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@ploum @mpaluchowski @pluralistic
Though it's striking that the blog post here mentions phone calls saving time, when IME phone calls are increasingly staffed by chatbots that take several minutes of effort to shove aside to get to a human...
Though it's striking that the blog post here mentions phone calls saving time, when IME phone calls are increasingly staffed by chatbots that take several minutes of effort to shove aside to get to a human...