Web Users Rediscover RSS For Cleaner Browsing

An essay argues that RSS remains the best way to read the modern web and recounts Google’s decision to shutter Google Reader in 2013 as central to "enshittification." The author highlights practical tools—NewsBlur (a $36/year subscription used since 2011) and Firefox's Reader View—and cites Caroline Crampton's recent piece to encourage readers to adopt RSS for ad-free, readable feeds.