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by rightbyte 919 days ago
RSS is the antithesis to the interest of link aggregators like Google. It is no accident they didn't support it properly.
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Does nobody remember that RSS integration with browser (Firefox Live Bookmarks anyone?) was spectacular before Chrome showed up? They easily could have integrated it a hundred different times a hundred different ways. They didn't. They've even shut their own RSS reader. They don't want content to be available to your standards, they want it available to advertisers'.
RSS readers had limited javascript support, which meant ads wouldn't show. Guess who sells more website ad inventory than anyone else?