Daringfireball.net feed shows original site text, not feed text

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The Daring Fireball feed typically has a link to the story that Gruber is commenting on, and then the content of the post. Up until recently that’s always displayed correctly.

Lately however in Newsblur it’s fetching the content of the link and showing that as the post content. I’ve verified that the feed does have its own separate content; I’ve included an example below. In this entry the link to the article he’s referring to is a ‘<link rel=“alternate”…>’ tag, and the content is inside of a <content…> tag.

–Curtis

<entry>
    <title>How AirPods Work</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-the-hidden-design-of-the-apple-airpod/" />
    <link rel="shorturl" type="text/html" href="http://df4.us/wjx" />
    <link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/28/how-airpods-work" />
    <id>tag:daringfireball.net,2025:/linked//6.42189</id>
    <published>2025-08-28T14:18:39Z</published>
    <updated>2025-08-28T22:27:49Z</updated>
    <author>
        <name>John Gruber</name>
        <uri>http://daringfireball.net/</uri>
    </author>
    <content type="html" xml:base="https://daringfireball.net/linked/" xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[
<p>Truly phenomenal video from Real Engineering about a genuinely phenomenal product. In my <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2023/09/airpods_pro_2_usbc">review of the AirPods Pro 2 in 2023</a> — a year after they originally shipped, when the cases were changed to use USB-C — I called them “the best single expression of Apple as a company today”. That remains true. AirPods exemplify everything that sets Apple apart: miniaturization, “it just works” ease of use, opinionated design (you get them in any color you want, so long as it’s white), and, most of all, joyfulness.</p>

<p>It occurs to me that Apple doesn’t brag enough about its engineering accomplishments these days. Under their previous CEO, they’d spend more time in product introduction explaining how things work, like a lecture in a 101 college course. I miss that. This Real Engineering video fills in those gaps.</p>

<div>
<a  title="Permanent link to ‘How AirPods Work’"  href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/28/how-airpods-work">&nbsp;★&nbsp;</a>
</div>

    ]]></content>
  </entry>
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Have you perhaps recently switch to the text view rather than the feed view? Because I’ve noticed that it often, though curiously not always, extracts the text from the linked site rather than from daringfireball.

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Thanks @leonick, that’s correct. You likely are on the Text view instead of the Feed view. And DF links directly to the story, so the text in this case is the linked story text. It’s a quirky feed in that regard, since it doesn’t link urls to its own site. But that’s why it behaves differently than most feeds.

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That must be it - I don’t know how I turned that on, but it’s working now that I know to have it off. Thanks!

—Curtis

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