Google is testing a new feature for its Chrome browser on Android that lets users “follow” sites to create an updating list of new content they publish. The feature is based on RSS, an open web standard that’s been the backbone of many popular web aggregation tools in the past. That includes Google’s own, much beloved (and now defunct) Google Reader.
The test is small-scale: following sites will only be an option for some US users of Chrome Canary (the bleeding-edge version of Chrome that lets enthusiasts access beta features).
There is no way I’d keep up with reading 500+ tech news articles per day if it was not for an RSS reader. It eliminates all the site algorithms and adverts etc whilst I’m scanning for topics of interest. It was a sad day when Google Reader closed down, but it turned out there were many excellent alternatives that have been going strong all this time. I really hope we see baked-in RSS functionality across all browsers. Brave Browser has Brave News and I recall Edge also has something like this where the RSS part is basically transparent to the user. The user must be able to start with a clean slate though and add just what they want to see.
See Google rediscovers RSS: tests new feature to ‘follow’ sites in Chrome on Android
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