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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS (openrss.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Crul@lemm.ee to c/rss@lemmy.ml

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Content summary:

Google removes RSS button from Chrome browser
Google acquires FeedBurner and limits RSS
Google shuts down Google Reader
Google removes RSS from Google Alerts
Google kills its RSS browser extension
Google removes RSS integration from Google News
Google's still at it...

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[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

To play devil's advocate, they kept rss feeds for youtube (albeit it not easily found). This allowed me to 'subscribe' and get updates via newsboat on Linux. When i open these links, a redirect extension in my browser takes me to invidious and noscript prevents google from pulling even small bits of data. Then i use yt-dlp with a sponsorrblock flag to grab the actual vid and watch it using mpv. Yay...but yeah, Google has weird loopholes they left open.

More obvious example of this irony is buying a Google Pixel and installing GrapheneOS.