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by sertbdfgbnfgsd 919 days ago
> But they historically had several feed systems [1] [2] which were fully under their control.

I don't think Google's fear is who's in control of any one particular RSS. I think Google's fear is what if people realize that, for the purposes of subscribing to updates from a source, RSS is objectively better than Google. They're afraid of losing the mindshare of being the unquestionably better option for everything.