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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by illicium on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @07:39PM (#10977419)
Publishers can't serve effectively serve ads through RSS. Ads have to be rolled into the post body and if the feedreader caches images, you can't track impressions.

A way around it is to serve a preview of the article and require readers to read the rest on the publisher's website, but at that point you might as well just use Twitter.

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Re:Firefox Can Now Get Push Notifications from Your Favorite... by hackuser on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @01:44AM (#10978638)
> A way around it is to serve a preview of the article and require readers to read the rest on the publisher's website, but at that point you might as well just use Twitter.

Don't say that. Reading Twitter isn't early as efficient as reading my RSS reader. I dread everyone moving to Twitter.

Also RSS is open and Twitter is not (one reason there are better RSS readers).

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