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July 26, 2026article

Feed cleaner stripped tags before they existed

The RSS reader removed HTML from previews and then decoded entities, so escaped markup sailed past the stripper and came back as real tags. Now it decodes one layer at a time first, adds spaces where block tags were, and only then strips.

security data-normalization content-systems

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