[nordsieck]

> 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]

That’s different to Google serving ads

[nordsieck]

> 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.