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Lots of discussion on feed readers but basic support should be built in to browsers really.

Doesn't have to be a full "reader", it can just have a little RSS icon that shows a (1) etc for new items, which shows the links to the posts when clicked. Show up a little marker on the same icon when a site has a feed you can subscribe to. Manage your feeds in the settings somewhere.

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Firefox used to support RSS, but they removed it in late 2018.

Thunderbird supports RSS...and NNTP.

The feature could use some work however. I remember trying it recently and OPML support (especially when you have sub-folders) didn't really work.

Personally I use Smart-RSS [1], which is a clone of the original Opera (12) feed reader and runs as a browser extension (both chrome/ium and firefox). It has some bugs but it works well for my use case.

[1] https://github.com/SmartRSS/Smart-RSS

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