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		nordsieck on Feb 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) > Your analogy leaves out the fact that RSS doesn't work for serving ads, which is why all of this was in Google's interest. I'm skeptical. There were/are plenty of people who did title-only feeds because they wanted to serve ads.

bamboozled on Feb 24, 2024 [–]

That’s different to Google serving ads

nordsieck on Feb 24, 2024 | [–]

> That’s different to Google serving ads

A title-only RSS feed means people have to go to their site to consume the content. Which, presumably, has google ads on it.

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