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There are still some news sites that publish an RSS feed, build an aggregator and filter out words you don't like
Thats actually a cool idea, Iโm learning rust these days, and building a personal news feed feels like a doable project with a ton of useful lessons built in. Thanks!
sure. what i did was get a list of common words, remove them from the headlines, and remove the words i didn't care for, then group the news items by 'topic'. most readers/aggregators just iterate the headlines by source. the reason i removed 'trump' from my news feed during his first presidency was because there were wayyyy too many news stories then. i'm sure it will happen again next year. i felt so much more calmer after snipping those headlines out. i just did headlines, you can do article summary/content too but it's much more work especially if you want to parse feeds every minute. The funnest thing is finding out many of the news agencies must not realize their draft articles hit their RSS feed before they are published on their site, you may see odd headlines like "Fat woman gets mad at McDonalds" or something off the wall, then later they write a proper headline when they finish the article.