How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by monksy on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:14PM (#49137972)

What did Google benefit from killing rss? Seems like that would help engagement on the web in general.

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by tommek4077 on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:22PM (#49138068)

You couldnt put ads that easily in rss feeds.

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by goldenarm on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:24PM (#49138091)

They killed greader and RSS to push Google+, which was a brilliant decision.

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by danesparza on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:28PM (#49138138)

Ad revenue.

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by InsideOutSanta on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:43PM (#49138285)

It's a decentralized solution in a world where google wants everything to go through google.

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by inigyou on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:59AM (#49143246)

They could've added a Google-only feed type to Reader and encouraged authors to migrate to it using EEE. This is exactly what they tried to do with Usenet via Google Groups. (Google is now banned from Usenet)

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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by waqasx on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:29PM (#49139944)

Subscribing to RSS creates a p2p web over http. It cuts out the middleman. Who is the biggest middleman of the internet?

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