Content summary:

  • Google removes RSS button from Chrome browser
  • Google acquires FeedBurner and limits RSS
  • Google shuts down Google Reader
  • Google removes RSS from Google Alerts
  • Google kills its RSS browser extension
  • Google removes RSS integration from Google News
  • Google’s still at it…
  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    To play devil’s advocate, they kept rss feeds for youtube (albeit it not easily found). This allowed me to ‘subscribe’ and get updates via newsboat on Linux. When i open these links, a redirect extension in my browser takes me to invidious and noscript prevents google from pulling even small bits of data. Then i use yt-dlp with a sponsorrblock flag to grab the actual vid and watch it using mpv. Yay…but yeah, Google has weird loopholes they left open.

    More obvious example of this irony is buying a Google Pixel and installing GrapheneOS.