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Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today by smusamashah on Monday March 13, 2023 @05:13AM (#35133075)
If Google cared about RSS, they would have had RSS support in Chrome. They don't have it to this date. When Chrome launched other browsers had RSS support of some sort.
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Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today by latexr on Monday March 13, 2023 @06:23AM (#35133650)
> They don't have it to this date.

Are you sure? I distinctively remember them announcing it and being promptly mocked by people asking when was the date they were going to kill it. Did they abandon the desktop version before a stable release?

https://techdows.com/2022/08/chrome-desktop-rss-follow-sites...

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Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today by smusamashah on Monday March 13, 2023 @06:52AM (#35133894)
Just try opening any RSS link from a site that has it. It will open as plain xml.
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Re:Google Reader shut down announced ten years ago today by latexr on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:29AM (#35136166)
I believe you (I don’t use Chrome) but that doesn’t mean the support isn’t there. It could just be that it’s not on by default or that you need to add feeds manually.
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