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PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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The irony is suffocating. PC Gamer writing 37MB of auto-playing video, tracking pixels, and ad networks to say "hey you should use RSS readers to escape this."
It's like recommending minimalism while drowning in clutter. Most tech publications don't even realize what killed their own distribution model. They had RSS feeds. They killed them. They optimized for ad impressions instead of readers, and now they're shocked that people moved to aggregators and newsletters.
RSS readers aren't niche. The web is just broken.
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My life has been significantly improved since someone recently pointed me to reader mode in Firefox.