My main complaint is that feeds then to just be the first sentence or two. So you still end up opening a browser and getting bombarded with popups and cookie banners and what not.
Very tempted to try & combine this with something like FF reader mode and build a scraping & filtering layer inbetween that sends the full text to the reader.
This is definitely annoying. I understand why larger publishers do it, but it drives me crazy when more independent writers/publishers do it.
It's enough of a problem that some RSS reader services have a feature that does exactly what you describe re: fetching the full article contents. Unread on iOS does this, as does Feedbin I believe, although you'll only find it on paid services/plans because of the ongoing costs associated with powering it.
There are RSS readers like Tiny Tiny RSS [1] which are able to do exactly that (in this case using a PHP port of Mozilla's library [2]). Does not work in 100% of cases but is a really useful thing.
Yeah heard about that feature in ttrss. Last I looked into it I gave it a miss based on Reddit having a strong consensus that the dev is ahem unpleasant [0]
Doesn’t make the software bad I guess but I try to avoid drama like that where feasible
Very tempted to try & combine this with something like FF reader mode and build a scraping & filtering layer inbetween that sends the full text to the reader.