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Before there was chrome, browsers use to have native RSS support. To this date chrome does not support RSS natively. They are responsible for killing RSS. Now t
by smusamashah 5y ago
Before there was chrome, browsers use to have native RSS support. To this date chrome does not support RSS natively. They are responsible for killing RSS. Now they are bringing it back with a social media buzz word 'follow'.
This is a shitty play.
- asdff 5y agoFirefox has RSS support until like last year iirc. It wasn't chrome that killed that, it was Mozilla shifting engineering priorities.
- smusamashah 5y agoI have been an Opera user from v5 till v11 (it became unbearable at that point). It had RSS, Email, IRC etc support. I seem to remember both internet explorer and firefox back then could open RSS feed albeit poorly in comparison. Then came chrome. I resisted switching from Opera until it became useless, but we had Google Reader for feeds even though chrome couldn't read RSS. Reading feeds was not a problem until they killed Reader. Then we were left with chrome with no rss support and no Google Reader. Feedly was to bloaty to keep using. This how i see the progression of chrome killing rss.
- onli 5y agoThere are many alternatives to Feedly. Bazqux is probably the best of them. The old reader was back then very similar to Google Reader and still looks similar. FreshRSS is a very nice option to self-host.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y agoAlso there are few cross-platform standalone RSS softwares; QuiteRSS and RSS-Guard. For Chrome alterivates, Vivaldi have native RSS support. It need to be enabled in the setting to use RSS. Also there are tt-rss for selfhosting.
- dfabulich 5y agoI think it's easier to make the case that "Google" killed RSS rather than "Chrome." Google certainly killed Google Reader. I understand how you feel; improving RSS support in Chrome feels shitty, considering what they did to Reader. Even bringing back Google Reader would be unwelcome, at this point. Having said that, since Google killed Reader, it's not the least bit clear what would you even want Google to do now, in 2021, beyond what they're doing in Chrome. What could possibly make amends for killing Google Reader?
- fomine3 5y agoEven both is Google employee, Google Reader team and Chromium team is very different. I don't think the "Google" has consistent thought about RSS.
- hopesthoughts 5y agoThe answer to the question is nothing, ever!!!
- saurik 5y agoI would guess that was caused by the death of RSS, not the other way around.
- scrollaway 5y agoWhy is it a shitty play? A shitty play would have been inventing a new proprietary protocol for this and tying it into Google tech somehow. And "follow" is not a "social media buzz word". "Follow" and "Subscribe" have been used for fucking ever in the RSS world, long before Facebook was a thing.
- hobs 5y agobecause people still just want google reader and this aint it
- pjerem 5y agoHmm, as someone who suffered the Google reader ending, no. Now there are tons of better alternatives to Google Reader, without the tracking, great mobile apps… I would never go back to Google Reader, even if it resurrected tomorrow.
- adrianmonk 5y agoAlso, people have been following particular stories in the news and subscribing to magazines since before the internet or for that matter computers.
- hopesthoughts 5y agoMaybe, in another decade, they'll fix that whole thing.