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> I'd rather spend my time reading content on an interface that I don't have to fight against (e.g. full screen overlay ads with a tiny x to close) RSS readers
by mtbcoder 11y ago
> I'd rather spend my time reading content on an interface that I don't have to fight against (e.g. full screen overlay ads with a tiny x to close)
RSS readers solved this problem a long time ago.
- emodendroket 11y agoAs far as I can tell the hegemony of Google Reader kind of stunted the growth of everything else.
- timboslice 11y agoI never thought of it that way, but it makes sense. The rise of RSS in the mid 2000's gave way to all sorts of plugins to inject ads into your RSS feeds as a way to cope with the lost web traffic
- morley 11y agoRSS didn't solve the adoption problem, nor the "it just works" problem.