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		philwelch on Feb 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical stat... That’s mostly because tech companies have been trying to kill open protocols like RSS in order to lock people into their proprietary platforms.

piperswe on Feb 7, 2024 [–]

That doesn't answer why Firefox doesn't have RSS support anymore though (removed in 2018)

philwelch on Feb 8, 2024 | [–]

I don’t think Firefox continuing to support RSS would have made a difference. It makes sense for Mozilla to prioritize features that users actually want over trying to maintain some idealistic vision that was already dead.

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