This is the worst time of year for my RSS feed as every website I follow spams hundreds of Amazon Prime deals across their feeds. I don’t blame them for doing so because they have to make money somehow (Google sure isn’t helping them out), but it’s annoying as hell. For one, I’m not in the US anymore, so most of these deals don’t apply to me. Two, I don’t buy from Amazon as much as possible.
Even past Prime Day, I have noticed a huge uptick in rss articles being nothing more than affiliate link promo messages. Again I don’t blame them, but it does sully their reputations in my mind. It’s especially bad for sites like Wired, which I pay, for to do such a thing. At least they could do is offer an ad-free feed for subscribers.
I need to find an RSS app for Mac and iOS that can do some keyword filtering. I know a RSS service like Feebin or Inoreader could do this, but I have subscription fatigue as it is, and I won’t use the rest of the features enough to gain the benefit. So I guess I am stuck complaining on the internet.