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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by smsm42 on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:44PM (#39494571)
Yeah their AI efforts are weird. It's like they are ashamed of "just" making an excellent product for rss, and want to do something special but nothing useful, at least for me, came out of it do far. TBH, I'm ok with them just being an excellent rss reader and will keep paying for it.
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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by nirav72 on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:56PM (#39494654)
I think they're adding lot of these features as incentives to entice users to switch to their subscription service. Not sure what percentage of their users pay for the subscription.
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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by smsm42 on Saturday February 24, 2024 @03:44PM (#39495013)
I actually signed up for AI enabled plan out of curiosity (I had non AI subscription for years prior). Had to downgrade back because it was too annoying and I couldn't figure out how to make it stop completely. Whoever inside the company is pushing this is not doing them a service.
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