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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 9 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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everdrive ◴[24 Aug 25 18:44 UTC] No.45006602[source]▶
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
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themafia ◴[24 Aug 25 20:05 UTC] No.45007296[source]▶
It's a good time to get an RSS reader and build some direct connections to your sources. They're coming for the "aggregators" next.
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1oooqooq ◴[24 Aug 25 20:55 UTC] No.45007685[source]▶
rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.
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1. JFingleton ◴[24 Aug 25 22:59 UTC] No.45008566[source]▶
RSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment.

As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

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2. bpye ◴[24 Aug 25 23:06 UTC] No.45008629[source]▶
> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.

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3. crtasm ◴[25 Aug 25 00:10 UTC] No.45008999[source]▶
There are RSS readers which can automatically download the full article text. I use Handy Reading on Android which can also do so on-demand.
4. rauli_ ◴[25 Aug 25 04:39 UTC] No.45010258[source]▶
That used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.
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5. esseph ◴[25 Aug 25 05:33 UTC] No.45010543[source]▶
Nope

Still get all of my podcasts via RSS. Several dozen.

6. rhdunn ◴[25 Aug 25 07:51 UTC] No.45011361[source]▶
Podcasts tend to be available from different sources to extend their reach YouTube and Spotify don't offer RSS feeds, however other services like redcirle.com, megaphone.fm, anchor.fm, and audioboom.com all offer RSS feeds. Even Apple should as it has a set of iTunes extensions for RSS to annotate things like the episode number.

I've been able to find RSS feeds for all the podcasts I listen to.

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7. Unai ◴[25 Aug 25 12:01 UTC] No.45012916{3}[source]▶
YouTube, very surprisingly, does offer RSS feeds (for now).
8. _Algernon_ ◴[25 Aug 25 12:05 UTC] No.45012944{3}[source]▶
Youtube offers rss feeds, for example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCXuqSBl...

It's just a bit clunky to find. You need the channel id which you can find in the page source somewhere.

Note that this is a regular rss, not podcast rss.

9. account42 ◴[26 Aug 25 10:57 UTC] No.45024859[source]▶
Is that really a problem though? I usually want to read something on the original website anyway as RSS is a lot more limited (or at least inconsistent) in what kind of styling and media is supported. What I care about is getting notified of updates to sites/people I follow without having to rely on a centralized gatekepper and RSS does that really well.