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So? You just unsubscribe from any that are shit. Unlike on google where you can't delete a site from the search results (which you can on kagi btw, which is gre

by boxed 4y ago

So? You just unsubscribe from any that are shit. Unlike on google where you can't delete a site from the search results (which you can on kagi btw, which is great).

AlecSchueler 4y ago
So if RSS took off with the general public and this was your plan you'd very quickly be left with an empty feed reader. The point is that RSS was/less overrun by advertising than the web because of cultural reasons, not thanks to something inherent to the technology.
- boxed 4y ago
  I don't think RSS being widely used will make people insert ads into their hobby blogs.
- 6510 4y ago
  It can only be empty if every website joined your plot. You might be shocked to find out how many respectable publishers are still out there. But lets stick to the technology, first things first, how are you going to get me to subscribe to your feed? I just don't see it happening. Finding subscribers is incredibly hard. You might be able to get one feed into my aggregator but I just press delete? If it has as many postings as this one... https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ...they all vanish when I press delete. It isn't like you only have to obtain my email address. But if it was it would be easy for google to copy paste the gmail filter.
- xattt 4y ago
  News sites would start dropping ads into your feed, and currently, there would be no way to filter it out. Right now, there’s no iOS RSS readers that will filter duplicate stories. I can’t imagine how adblocking would get implemented.
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    This was a solved problem in 2012. Ads are stories and can easily filtered skipped. Duplicate story checkers filter based on title/content similarity. Software available for iOS can be limited compared to windows or linux.
- thr717272 4y ago
  There was already ads in feeds or feeds that were nothing more than links. But IIRC there were also sites that let you pay for a full feed and I think something good could have come out of it.
  - AlecSchueler 4y ago
    And there are websites that let you pay for add free. The original point is simply that RSS would have gone the way of the web, in terms of the presence of advertising, had it become mainstream. There being workarounds or other models possible doesn't change that and it also applies to the web today. As another commentor pointed out, RSS would have unique difficulties for adblockers as well.

by boxed 4y ago

So? You just unsubscribe from any that are shit. Unlike on google where you can't delete a site from the search results (which you can on kagi btw, which is great).

AlecSchueler 4y ago

So if RSS took off with the general public and this was your plan you'd very quickly be left with an empty feed reader. The point is that RSS was/less overrun by advertising than the web because of cultural reasons, not thanks to something inherent to the technology.

boxed 4y ago
I don't think RSS being widely used will make people insert ads into their hobby blogs.
6510 4y ago
It can only be empty if every website joined your plot. You might be shocked to find out how many respectable publishers are still out there. But lets stick to the technology, first things first, how are you going to get me to subscribe to your feed? I just don't see it happening. Finding subscribers is incredibly hard. You might be able to get one feed into my aggregator but I just press delete? If it has as many postings as this one... https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss ...they all vanish when I press delete. It isn't like you only have to obtain my email address. But if it was it would be easy for google to copy paste the gmail filter.
xattt 4y ago
News sites would start dropping ads into your feed, and currently, there would be no way to filter it out. Right now, there’s no iOS RSS readers that will filter duplicate stories. I can’t imagine how adblocking would get implemented.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  This was a solved problem in 2012. Ads are stories and can easily filtered skipped. Duplicate story checkers filter based on title/content similarity. Software available for iOS can be limited compared to windows or linux.
thr717272 4y ago
There was already ads in feeds or feeds that were nothing more than links. But IIRC there were also sites that let you pay for a full feed and I think something good could have come out of it.
- AlecSchueler 4y ago
  And there are websites that let you pay for add free. The original point is simply that RSS would have gone the way of the web, in terms of the presence of advertising, had it become mainstream. There being workarounds or other models possible doesn't change that and it also applies to the web today. As another commentor pointed out, RSS would have unique difficulties for adblockers as well.