How to sign up for ABC RSS without selling your soul
ABC News has a good selection of RSS feeds. Unfortunately, in order to reach the page where they're listed, you have to click through this disgusting, clueless, multi-page "agreement" (excerpted below):
4. CONFIDENTIALITY. During the term of this Agreement, you may have access to some of ABC News's nonpublic technical or product information ("Proprietary Information"). Such Proprietary Information shall belong solely to ABC News. You shall not, except as expressly authorized by this Agreement, use or disclose Proprietary Information without the prior written consent of ABC News unless such Proprietary Information becomes part of the public domain through no fault of yours. You agree (i) not to disclose any Proprietary Information to any third parties, (ii) not to use any Proprietary Information for any purposes except carrying out your rights and responsibilities under this Agreement, and (iii) to keep the Proprietary Information confidential using the same degree of care you use to protect your own confidential information, as long as you use at least reasonable care. You acknowledge and agree that due to the unique nature of ABC News's Proprietary Information, there can be no adequate remedy at law for any breach of its obligations hereunder, that any such breach may allow you or third parties to unfairly compete with ABC News resulting in irreparable harm to ABC News, and therefore, that upon any such breach or threat thereof, ABC News shall be entitled to injunctions and other appropriate equitable relief in addition to whatever remedies it may have at law.Get that? You have to sign onto a confidentiality agreement in order to read the RSS feeds at ABC! And sign away your publicity rights. And agree not to forward on any ABC stories without permission.5. PUBLICITY. ABC News may use your name in releases, customer lists, marketing and other materials. Unless otherwise expressly permitted by ABC News, you may not create, publish, or distribute any items that reference ABC News without first submitting those items to ABC News and receiving ABC News's written consent.
Luckily, I didn't agree to any of that. I deleted everything in the text field containing the agreement, substituted some rude text of my own and found myself a nice list of all of ABC's XML feeds. If you'd like to directly subscribe to ABC's RSS without selling your soul by clicking through their one-sided adhesion contract, here are the direct URLs:
World Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/world_rss20.xmlLink
US Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/us_rss20.xml
Politics Headines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/politics_rss20.xml
MONEYScope Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/business_rss20.xml
Scitech Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/scitech_rss20.xml
Health Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/health_rss20.xml
Entertainment Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/entertainment_rss20.xml
Travel Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/travel_rss20.xml
Relationships Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/relationships_rss20.xml
WNT Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/wnt_rss20.xml
20/20 Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/2020_rss20.xml
Primetime Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/primetime_rss20.xml
Nightline Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/nightline_rss20.xml
This Week Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/thisweek_rss20.xml
GMA Headlines: http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/gma_rss20.xml


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