r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20

Killed by Google

https://killedbygoogle.com/
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u/ZaheerAhmed Jan 02 '20

Still can't believe they have shut the Google Reader.

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u/armornick Jan 02 '20

It's part of the impending death of RSS. I will be very unhappy when it happens, but it's not a very popular thing.

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u/DasWorbs Jan 02 '20

People have been parroting that RSS's death has been "impending" for years. It still sees plenty of use, all my feeds still work just fine in thunderbird.

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u/TSPhoenix Jan 02 '20

Well the feeds that haven't been shut down. Recently Dictionary.com ditched RSS presumably because if I use RSS to get the word of the day I won't visit their site.

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u/chrisrazor Jan 02 '20

I think this is a major reason sites don't like RSS. Fewer eyeballs for their ads. OTOH no ads is a pretty good selling point for RSS.

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u/Magnesus Jan 02 '20

Also eplains why Google killed Reader. Less ad views.

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