Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance?
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt’s because RSS doesn’t allow you to serve ads and every tech company right now is either feeling the squeeze or feeling the greed.
Comment on Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance?
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt’s because RSS doesn’t allow you to serve ads and every tech company right now is either feeling the squeeze or feeling the greed.
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Feeds can be set up to just show part of the article so you’d still have to visit the site to read it all, which seems a better solution than losing the traffic completely. I’ve deleted many sites that just stopped their RSS at some point and I just kind of forgot about them.
Also, why can’t sponsored texts be added to RSS? It seems to me this would be hard to block by adblockers (and I’ll probably unsubscribe, but still).
Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Modern ads aren’t simply bits of text or animated gifs anymore. They’re full tracking platforms that rely on analyzing a person’s usage in order to deliver them targeted ads. It’s much harder to do that over RSS.