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Blog · Sources & paywalls
Sources, feeds and paywalls.
A news app is only as good as the feeds behind it. This section is about where the news actually comes from: the public RSS feeds newsrooms still publish, which major US sites can be read without paying, the difference between a metered and a hard paywall, and how to trace a story back to the outlet that reported it first. GetMyNews reads public RSS feeds from US newsrooms, shows the newsroom on every card, and opens the publisher's own page when you tap a story — which is why these guides spend time on paywalls: the app never lifts one, and some of the titles it carries are subscription titles.
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How to Find a Story's Original Source
Most of what crosses your phone is a rewrite. Six moves that trace a story back to the newsroom that gathered it, and what a card owes you before you tap.
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Do News Apps Work Offline?
Subways, planes and dead zones. What a news app can still show you with no connection, what it cannot, and the thirty-second habit that decides it.
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Free News Websites With No Paywall
Ranked lists of free news sites rot in a month. The four categories that stay open on purpose, how to spot them, and what to do when your story is locked.
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What Is a News Aggregator? A Plain Answer
A news aggregator gathers many newsrooms into one place. The three questions that define one — intake, ordering, where you read — and whether you need one.
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Is RSS Still Used? Yes — Here Is How
RSS never went away: every newsroom still publishes one and podcasts run on it. What an RSS feed is, why it lost the mainstream, and when it beats a feed.
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Is It Paywalled? Tell Before You Click
Open, metered or hard: three kinds of paywall, four tells that identify each from the link alone, and what to do with a locked story that matters to you.
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Read Paywalled Articles Free — Legally
Which routes past a paywall are legitimate, which are circumvention, and why a library card beats every browser trick people trade online right now.