How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
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Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#2Yeah, fuck Google for all of this.
That's my intellectually considered response.
Fuck Google.
Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#3What did Google benefit from killing rss? Seems like that would help engagement on the web in general.
Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#4Google Reader going away felt like the beginning of the end the internet as I knew it. I miss websites
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Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#6What did Google benefit from killing rss? Seems like that would help engagement on the web in general.
You couldnt put ads that easily in rss feeds.
Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#7Google’s obviously fake excuse for killing their RSS reader (declining usage) was especially maddening at the time because they were pushing Google+ - which _nobody_ used.
Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#8What did Google benefit from killing rss? Seems like that would help engagement on the web in general.
They killed greader and RSS to push Google+, which was a brilliant decision.
Re: How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
#9What 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)
#10Yeah, fuck Google for all of this. That's my intellectually considered response. Fuck Google.
Upvoted not for your particular phrasing, but because in a sense, this was my experience as well: I wanted to work at Google, and I thought Google was learning how to marry a great business with treating customers well. Killing GReader was the inflection point for me, when Google tipped from "Great!" to "Kinda evil". It's been a slide ever since.