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Re:Ask HN: Every website wants to send me notifications by andrewguenther on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:32PM (#13279880)
> That's what RSS is for, no?

> Perfect for the end user

Really? Do you genuinely believe that RSS Readers are widely used? Do you really think that the average non-technical user can and/or is willing to use RSS software, let alone configure a proxy? Do you even think they care?

Personal opinion: I love RSS feeds, but to think that it is somehow superior to notifications for the average user is silly.

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Re:Ask HN: Every website wants to send me notifications by x1798DE on Friday December 30, 2016 @08:26AM (#13284232)
Why would you need to configure a proxy? When I used to read more blogs, I would just click the RSS feed icon in the URL bar, then it would generate a little bookmark folder thing in Firefox and blog entries would show up there. Seemed pretty simple at the time...
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