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by ghaff 1064 days ago
>Killing RSS was part of that strategy.

Oh please.

I get that it's more satisfying to blame Google than the faceless masses who had zero interest in RSS and who had a variety of alternatives to Reader in any case.

I guess they also had a strategy to kill social media by axing Google+ and user-created encyclopedias by killing Knol.
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fooyc 1064 days ago
Not only Reader, but also the RSS support in Chrome and Firefox (whose Google used to be the primary source of funds). And Feedburner.
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greiskul 1064 days ago
> Firefox (whose Google used to be the primary source of funds)

Google deal with Firefox was always about being the default search engine there, and that's it. They never had any power of cutting it adding features to the project.

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mrguyorama 1064 days ago
Officially, sure, but you shouldn't pretend that Google's funding isn't the main survival line for Mozilla as an entity, and that there isn't pressure there.
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scrum-treats 1064 days ago
Note: Brave (Chromium) has a RSS support. It's pretty good.
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LightBug1 1064 days ago
You can Oh please, but Google will never live that one down.

It'll live on in the history of the internet ... foreverrrrrrrrrrr.

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