Posted on 11/01/2017 6:18:01 AM PDT by x1stcav
I gave up on Drudge some time ago (after almost twenty years as my go-to news feed) and have been looking for alternatives. Two that seem to be pretty good are Whatfinger and The Liberty Daily. The first is a pretty conventional newsfeed but Liberty Daily is Drudge for normals.
An increasing trend is that some websites are now restricting access to content if you are running pop-up blockers. At that point, it's a judgment call for me. If it's a well-known website that I trust, I'll allow pop-ups for that domain only. If I don't know or trust the site, I'll just move on. It all depends on your comfort level.
Feedly is an aggregator wherein you select your own sources and it pulls articles from them as they publish. I’ve used it for a long time and like it.
Feedly is an aggregator wherein you select your own sources and it pulls articles from them as they publish. Ive used it for a long time and like it.
As do I. Very, very powerful tool.
Here's a screenshot of part of my Feedly feeds:
It allows you to capture RSS feeds from multiple sources as well as supporting customized searches.
For example, I can enter this search pattern
And, not only will I get the search results, but it will keep collecting articles that have those three words in them.
Since you're sick of Drudge, one thing that I recommend is keep Drudge's RSS feed in Feedly and I can go straight to the articles he links without having to deal with the ads on his page.
Thanks! Sounds like something I want to add to my tech toolbox. I’ll research it.
UBlock Origin has done a decent job, but those ads on Liberty Daily are visually revolting and UBlock is evidently allowing them through. I used to see similar visuals on Drudge prior to UBlock Origin. Nothing like closeups of insects and sores to make your lunch less appealing. I think the one I just saw was a photo of a cross-eyed hillary with bloodshot eyes. Yikes! Halloween is over.
The Daily Mail's website is actually a pretty good news aggregator, just by itself. Unfortunately, the kind of images you're trying to avoid are in the articles. Today they've got a mysterious creature crossing the road, cleft lip surgery, etc.
Gentlemen, thanks.
Very interesting.
Lot’s of good leads on this thread.
Bump
I use uBlock Origin and it has worked well up until the last couple of days on LD.
Thanks for the tip.
It’s becoming a golden age of choice.
Anyway .. when I changed over to Waterfox (MUCH better than bloated FF) it copied over my profile but didn't copy over my ublock.sqlite file. That fixed it after a restart.
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