Benefits
Web feeds have some advantages compared to receiving frequently published content via an email:
- Users do not disclose their email address when subscribing to a feed
and so are not increasing their exposure to threats associated with
email: spam, viruses, phishing, and identity theft.
- Users do not have to send an unsubscribe request to stop receiving news. They simply remove the feed from their aggregator.
- The feed items are automatically sorted in that each feed URL has
its own sets of entries (unlike an email box where messages must be
sorted by user-defined rules and pattern matching).
In its explanation "What is a web feed?", the publishing group of Nature describes two benefits of web feeds
- It makes it easier for users to keep track of our content...This is a
very convenient way of staying up to date with the content of a large
number of sites.
- It makes it easier for other websites to link to our content.
Because RSS feeds can easily be read by computers, it's also easy for
webmasters to configure their sites so that the latest headlines from
another site's RSS feed are embedded into their own pages, and updated
automatically.
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