> Google has an interest in our depending on Google to find stuff, so of course they see RSS as a threat.
But they historically had several feed systems [1] [2] which were fully under their control.
> Cue some "googler" show up defending this move and how it makes the world better.
Of course. 'We have a better system that uses 2FA to securely text you every ten minutes to generate a code that, in combination with a 16 character unicode password, allows you to check whether Google approved content has been updated.'