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Same goes for podcasts, which are RSS too, and those are still a thing.

• petepete 3y ago
  But the ads are baked into the content.
  • charcircuit 3y ago
    That was also the case for blogs and youtube videos. RSS just brought you to the content and the content had ads.
  • crtasm 3y ago
    If you can bake ads into audio, you can bake them into text.
    • hot_gril 3y ago
      Sometimes it is, in the form of paid articles. Or make the RSS text portion only a preview of the full thing.
• zilti 3y ago
  Barely hanging on by nature of being an open format and Apple generously hosting the feed index publicly. But even that gets challenged now that most people switch to Spotify to listen to "podcasts" there - and those are completely siloed.
  • popcalc 3y ago
    You’ll be happy to hear that Spotify recently got rid of that paywall and you can now find all of their original podcasts including J Rogan on Apple Podcasts etc. Must have been a tax write-off?
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