Do I allowed to remove ads from feed in my News Reader app?

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Published on 2012-09-11T15:36:02Z Indexed on 2012/09/11 15:49 UTC
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I'm creating a News Reader app for Tablets and PCs. My app is fetching data from news sources by RSS feed of that websites (in the server-side).

But some of these sites are showing some advertise banners at the end of each article.

Should I remove that banners from feed? Am I legally/ethically allowed to do this?

And what about If I want to put some other ads on my application? (Right at the end of each article) I mean, If I want to have my own advertising service...

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