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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by BlueTemplar on Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:48PM (#39494083)
Opera (12ish) had a built-in email client where you read the RSS feeds.

Oh, and Opera mini had a built-in RSS client too.

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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by layer8 on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:02PM (#39494202)
Microsoft Outlook still has RSS support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/subscribe-to-an-r... Basically, an RSS feed is represented as an auto-populating mail folder. As still mentioned on the page linked above, Internet Explorer provided an easy way to subscribe.
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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by almostnormal on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:22PM (#39494375)
Support has been removed from Firefox, but it still exists in Thunderbird.

It's not surprising. It seems that many understand RSS more as a form of news (like a newsgroup or mailing list) than as a form of discovery for web content.

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