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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Unrelated note:
We had the technology in like 1998. RSS doesn't solve this problem because publications stopped offering full articles a long time ago. You still have to open the site to read them.
On another note, the author left out that PC gamer hijacks your browser history to show more articles when you try to back out of the site.
I HAAAAAATE this so bloody much. It's such a gross feeling when your device literally stops working the way it's supposed to work just because a website wants to shove more of their crap at you.
Is that like literally the simple and core definition of malware? Like thats just what those sites are, malware.
I have an app ( feedMe I think) that also pulls the text from the web version along with the 1-sentence feed and ocasionally a header image. Very useful on an eink device, but not sure if it works with pcgamer, because it can't pass some ad-walls/pay-walls.
However I feel RSS had a small part to play in the state of web today. If everyone were to use RSS how would writers get paid? Donations are too unreliable, subscriptions are frowned on, sponsorships are incompatible with the job and taxes really only work for state media like the BBC. People gotta eat, no?
Advertising doesn't have to be the way it is.