I use the iOS app of https://brutalist.report for this these days.

You can get the main content of a page as markdown via something like https://defuddle.md/

I sometimes read things via Feeder (the Android app) and there I can also pull in some content, even things that aren't included in the original RSS.

Lighthouse can sometimes find RSS feeds for pages that don’t show an RSS button on the page:

https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

I just don't pay for sites that don't offer full-text RSS (or email newsletters, for some sites) for subscribers.

Disable Javascript or use Lynx, Links or Dillo to open the articles from your newsreader. Some pages won't work obviously, you remove those from your feed.

i think rsshub can help with this, but im not 100% sure. its something you have to self host yourself, or pay a service like pikapods to run it for you

Maybe not considered a solution, but: print.

Reader mode + ad blocker

> no paid media provides full articles in RSS anymore

Substack does and it's first class. Patreon does a decent job.

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.

> Edit : Sorry I'm asking specifically about paywalled stuff

Ah, you mean, like the NYTimes RSS feed. The NYTimes (and other paywall sites) only render the headline and one-sentence article summary. Like this:

> Not All Malls Are Struggling

> A certain type of shopping mall has become a surprising bright spot for real estate investors.

You do not…please correct me if I’m wrong…and cannot get a full-text RSS feed from the Times. Or Slate. Or [insert legacy media company here].

Which is deeply frustrating. It’s obviously a way to cut off the most blatant way for a bot to scrape the site, but c’mon, please, media tech teams, we can make private subscription RSS feeds work for podcasts, we can make it work for news. Your most engaged and nerdy and tech literate customers will go for it.

In lieu of that, I use Safari, and I have it set to automatically pop into Reader mode (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/hide-distractions-whe...) when I hit certain websites. While I would prefer to read my news in NetNewsWire, hitting a de-shittified reader view in Safari is a decent fallback.

Pay for the web or print edition?

Journalists need to eat as well as you do.

The more people aren't supporting journalists weather in Substack or Reuters, the more articles that will be behind a paywall.

It's such a shame as well since AI is also constantly bypassing and scraping RSS for business and commercial purposes, violating licenses.

I have thought of this, and I have thoughts about the ethics of this.

In my spare time I'm developing a web RSS reader and considering effectively a Spotify model where users optionally have a paid subscription that is shared to article publishers to address the ethics of simply free stripping of ads as a service. I'd like it to be an optional paywall but haven't decided how to move forward