Can I have an RSS feed without ads?

March 28, 2025

As a subscriber to The Verge & WIRED, it is rather annoying that the RSS feeds that both provide are littered with product recommendation listicles, designed to generate revenue through affiliate links.

While they may be useful to some people, and generate an additional revenue stream, I am paying you. It is frustrating to still be advertised to, especially for something that promotes continual spending, something I’m cutting back on.

This excludes product reviews, which while I don’t particularly desire either, I can appreciate their value to people.

WIRED, unlike The Verge, does not have subscriber specific RSS feeds. Today, the affiliate articles were:

The Verge does have a subscriber specific RSS feed. Today, the affiliate articles in that feed were: