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If the Canadian government were smart, they'd start a massive campaign to encourage Canadians to move to using RSS readers for all their news -- Google and Meta would lose their freaking minds, as it would let people read headlines and news summaries without even visiting their landing pages (less ad impressions) ... hit 'em where it hurts!
Edit: Clarifying my thinking ... maybe the Canadian government could propose to let Google et al. serve Canadian media outlet's stories through their search sites... but only if they committed to supporting RSS/Atom feeds of the same articles. This would force them to open up their data a bit and make alternatives to visiting their sites more viable.
There is no way the general public would adopt RSS. The barrier to entry is just too high right now. Technology that delivers news needs to be idiot-proof and require basically 1-2 steps
Eg:
Or:
Don't get me wrong, RSS is great, but it's also used exclusively by the computer-literate and it has been that way for basically 25 years.
RSS does not necessarily mean clunky UI and difficult to use. There are some pretty beautiful podcast apps with great content discovery features out there :)
No reason a news app that reads RSS needs to be more complicated than opening Facebook.
“Pocket casts for blogs and written news” would be killer