Re:RSS is undead
by opencl on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:31AM
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They had a very simple reason, they can't show ads in the RSS feed.
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Re:RSS is undead
by jasonkostempski on Monday April 09, 2018 @09:34AM
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There's nothing stopping ads in RSS feeds, just tracking. Those should be separate things.
>There's nothing stopping ads in RSS feeds, just tracking. Those should be separate things.
Bingo. Plenty of my RSS feeds have ads, they just publish them as articles and say "This RSS feed is sponsored by. . ."
It's the same ad model as podcasts basically.
Other ones just give you an abstract or short blurb on your feed with a link to go back to the main site, which works just as well.
I always thought of a "marketing" "reason". Like "we want people on our site" which is not the case when a user reads postings with a RSS reader. At the same time they restricted apps more. Which, was probably because ads.