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  • Any site that generates content can choose to create an RSS feed. Essentially it’s a link to which the site can push new stories.

    You need an RSS client. Good news! There are a lot of free ones (and open source, too!).

    The pro’s of RSS:

    • all your different go-to news outlets in one place
    • no ad-ridden webpages
    • no dealing with interfaces of said news outlets
    • your pick ff categories, for instance if you’re not interested in celebrity gossip, you just turn that off

    The cons:

    • you’ll need to go collect RSS links from your favorite sites
    • one of your sites might no longer use RSS because they don’t get ad revenue for it
    • RSS readers are often not pretty
    • you might get weirdly formatted text pages sometimes


  • I’m not familiar with how malware like that masks but you can pretty much find any traffic with a tool like WireShark. It’s just a matter of finding out how processes recreate themselves once killed.

    If something lives in the storage of your router, specifically, I’d see about formatting the storage and flashing new firmware. As you stated, that may not solve anything.

    Regardless of how they enter and what is installed where, once it’s inside your home network it can pretty much access anything. If you wanna be fully secure you’d need a firewall and just block any traffic you don’t specifically whitelist. As you can imagine, this is cumbersome.

    Are you worried that something has infected your network devices? Do you have any reason to suspect something? In some countries, ISPs do some passive monitoring on what goes in and out of your home and if they see anything untoward they’ll disable that bridge device and notify you.