Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds

But it’s clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it’s established a user base.

Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.

cough cough gmail

(I use gmail and need to stop)

What gmail do? Except the usual data tomfoolery

The biggest and most obvious encroachment on standard email that Gmail does is opting for a tag system over a folder system. It is superior, but nonstandard. If you rely on this, it’s Gmail vendor lock-in for you.

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