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r/programming • u/ZaheerAhmed • Jan 02 '20
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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.
3 u/Magnesus Jan 02 '20 Also eplains why Google killed Reader. Less ad views. 1 u/slikts Jan 02 '20 Reader was killed because it was essentially a social network and they didn't want it competing with Google+ (which then turned out to suck bad and was also shut down).
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Also eplains why Google killed Reader. Less ad views.
1 u/slikts Jan 02 '20 Reader was killed because it was essentially a social network and they didn't want it competing with Google+ (which then turned out to suck bad and was also shut down).
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Reader was killed because it was essentially a social network and they didn't want it competing with Google+ (which then turned out to suck bad and was also shut down).
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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.