How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

Google's handling of its products has, according to this article, done substantial damage to RSS adoption, which the article says remains heavily used but has suffered. The article describes a pattern it calls Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish, in which Google builds products around the open RSS protocol, removes RSS support once users are locked in, and ignores requests to restore it. Cited examples include the removal of the RSS button from Chromium-based Chrome, the 2013 shutdown of Google Reader, the 2013 removal of RSS from Google Alerts (later reinstated), and the end of RSS support in Google News in December 2017. The article also notes that a 2021 announcement of an RSS feature for Chrome had not yet produced a launch.