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That would be a compelling argument if any substantive number of each site's potential viewers did this. But they don't. Publishers don't care about RSS because hardly anyone uses RSS because publishers don't care about RSS. Publishers would care more about RSS if they didn't have to sacrifice things they cared about to serve a small minority of viewers.

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> Publishers would care more about RSS if they didn't have to sacrifice things they cared about

What sacrifice are you talking about? For instance, Substack supports RSS, even for paid items. They just only include the teaser portion in the feed. The paying customers can click though.

If you don't click through, you don't get ads. The publisher makes no money from you browsing the content with a feed. Moreover, they can't quantify what you passed over before clicking something.

These aren't things users care about, but it's what the publishers care about.

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