Still, it’s at least nice to see Google keeping the RSS fire alive in some fashion. Enable globally or on select feeds - Supports both RSS and Atom feeds - See when a page has any RSS or Atom feeds to subscribe to - Sound notifications - iOS and Android apps - E-mail notifications (PRO only) If you have any feedback, bugs or issues, were always listening on our support channel:. The Chrome follow button is currently a mobile-only feature (iOS and desktop versions are coming), which will surely disappoint some Google Reader power users. It is then necessary to look in the source code of the website and find the URL of the feed. Indeed, websites do not always provide a direct link to the RSS feed. It’s not clear how many people already have access to the new feature by default, but you can enable it yourself by entering chrome://flags in your address bar and turning it on under web feed, Felt writes. Get RSS Feed URL is a Google Chrome extension that provides links to the various RSS/Atom feeds of a website. The Follow button aggregates content from an RSS feed into cards. The feature isn’t out yet on iOS, so I’m not able to check it out on my phone, but Felt shared some screenshots of what it looks like on Android so you can get an idea. Heres everything you need to do to activate. That’s why you either need built-in support (like Chrome for Android’s newest update) or RSS reader apps, like Feedly (free or from 6 a month for extra features) or Lire (10, exclusive for. Sites you’re following will appear in a tab called “following,” which sits along Google’s “for you” tab of recommended articles. Google announced that it has started to deploy the RSS reader for its favorite browser, Chrome.
You can follow a site through the browser’s three-dot menu to subscribe to its RSS feed and have it update in your Chrome app. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the experimental Canary versions of Chrome on Android, but today the company has started enabling it on stable versions of the browser, according to Adrienne Porter Felt, a director of engineering on Chrome. Fast & free RSS feed reader as a browser extension for Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave and Firefox for reading blogs, news or any RSS, Atom or RDF. Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a “follow button” for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May.