Well put. I agree that in practice, these sort of smart sites have much different implications than RSS readers. But as we all know, if you put it out there,

Well put. I agree that in practice, these sort of smart sites have much different implications than RSS readers. But as we all know, if you put it out there, people can do as they will with it. If content producers don't like this, their only good recourse is to drop their RSS feeds (or embed ads in their content, which is still vulnerable to the RSS equivalent of an ad-blocker.)