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Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return.

EDIT: Typical case of people only reading the headline. I was asking why people are hyped over something that did NOT happen.

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[–] 49 points 3 years ago (1 child)

It's because RSS doesn't allow you to serve ads and every tech company right now is either feeling the squeeze or feeling the greed.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Feeds can be set up to just show part of the article so you'd still have to visit the site to read it all, which seems a better solution than losing the traffic completely. I've deleted many sites that just stopped their RSS at some point and I just kind of forgot about them.

    Also, why can't sponsored texts be added to RSS? It seems to me this would be hard to block by adblockers (and I'll probably unsubscribe, but still).

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Modern ads aren't simply bits of text or animated gifs anymore. They're full tracking platforms that rely on analyzing a person's usage in order to deliver them targeted ads. It's much harder to do that over RSS.

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