[throwaway14356]

rss is the advertising.

It allows me to conveniently keep track of tens of thousands of websites.

If you don't have a feed, no problem. Ill just read something else.

With few exceptions I can't be bothered to keep looking at a web page hoping something new has happened.

[toyg]

RSS advertises the content, but not the actual sponsors of such content (i.e. commercial ads). It's also pretty hard to make it track readers.

That's why the likes of Meta and Google just don't like it.

[throwaway14356]

you want to advertise your sponsors in your advertising??