moreover.com RSS ads

13 Jun 2004

moreover.com has RSS feeds that is based on searches through their big database of syndicated content, I have been reading their London News feed for ages but they have recently started introducing ads into their feeds. I do not have a problem with ads in RSS feeds but I think people need to think how they do it a bit more.

The moreover feeds insert the ad into the feed with a time stamp of the request time. So each time you load the feed you get a new news item for the ad. My RSS aggregator now has about 50 entries advertising travel to Ibiza. This is very annoying and I am forced to unsubscribe from this feed now, I wonder how long it is going to be before aggregators start supporting filtering duplicate entries or entries matching filter strings.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 7:41 PM

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Admit it RIP , you REALLY REALLY do want to go raving at Ibiza with all the 13yr olds :-)
have a look at the filter module Dominic White (single.rucus.net) wrote last week to deal with exactly the same problem.

Barry Irwin | June 14, 2004 8:16 AM | Reply

Thanks Barry, but it's http://singe.rucus.net/ and the sanitised feed is at http://singe.rucus.net/sanity/moreover.php and you can see the source by sticking an 's' on the end of that URL.

Dominic White | October 14, 2004 6:55 PM | Reply

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