Not mentioned in the article, but I did tweet this very point (https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/312387676630298624 https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/312387

Not mentioned in the article, but I did tweet this very point (https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/312387676630298624 https://twitter.com/mahemoff/status/312387676630298624). Why they tend not to do it is is likely because of infrastructure, privacy and security concerns, regulations (EU privacy laws come to mind). And furthermore, they'd need to find a good home for it, or risk further backlash. So there are risks in terms of legal, regulation, and resources. A company like Google can't just transfer SSH keys to the highest bidder on eBay. All that said, I think in this case, there might be a more compelling reason to make the effort than normal. There's clearly a lot of passionate users, many of them influencers, and it's relatively simple to transfer people's OPML with some extra history data. I can see it's far from trivial though.