I think the worse RSS isn't in not having RSS, it's when they say "Hey here's a preview of what we wrote."
I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.
I really enjoy reading content on my terms on not having to go everywhere to get it. It makes my life much more peaceful.
Unfortunately, I like to write my content knowing how it's going to have a certain appearance and layout, and because this doesn't scale to the narrow set of HTML allowed in the <description> tag, I don't have anything in there and just have a link to my site.
There are definitely RSS feeds without content so you have to go to their site and have adverts thrown at you, yeah, but it's not as simple as flipping a switch and having readable content in your RSS feeds.
Another solution for sites that don't offer their own feeds: http://createfeed.fivefilters.org/
One of my favorite webcomics updated very sporadically and didn't provide a RSS feed for the longest time; it was difficult to keep up with updates. The current feed is just a link to the comic and is a significant improvement.
The author was resistant to RSS for the longest time because they thought they _had_ to include the comic in the feed and was worried about losing ad revenue.