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> Mostly because of Twitter and Facebook metadata. You can accomplish 90% of what you want with RSS just by parsing the metadata on an HTML page.

Very few end users can parse the metadata on an HTML page, and of those who can do it, few have time to do it for every page they'd like to 'subscribe to'.



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