Posting here because the whole reason Compass exists lines up with why a lot of you are on Lemmy: no ads, no tracking, no account, no Big Tech middleman.
It’s a news aggregator that pulls public RSS/Atom feeds and opens articles in a built-in reader that strips out the scripts, ad slots and tracking pixels before rendering. Everything — your feeds, saved stories, settings — lives on your device. The app collects nothing.
Android, closed testing right now. If the ethos resonates and you’d like to test, DM me the email on your Play account and I’ll add you. Feedback from people who actually care about this stuff is worth more than a hundred casual installs.
The webview isn’t supposed to show the bloaty page directly. Your client would retrieve the bloaty HTML, strip the junk out or maybe completely reformat the page, and then show the “purified” page in a browser. I did this for a while with local proxy cgi’s but they eventually stopped working due to AI bros over-scraping everything. Also, are you going to write custom de-bloating for different sites that your client reads? It helps quite a bit. I can send you some of mine if you want.
Yes a normal web page can’t pull arbitrary feeds but I had thought there were permissions you could give to enable that. Like I think Manifest v2 lets you turn off the cross origin check, so you could write a Firefox extension. But, they shut down Manifest v2 in Chrome in order to prevent ad blockers from working.
It sounds like you’re chatting with someone else’s coding agent