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RSS is a protocol, not a service. Email doesn't have analytics, nor does html or http or any other protocol. Analytics is functionality you connect to services
by kabanossen 8y ago
RSS is a protocol, not a service. Email doesn't have analytics, nor does html or http or any other protocol. Analytics is functionality you connect to services or tools, generating logs of how you use something. It's not on the same level of abstraction as a protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
- LoSboccacc 8y agoduh, this is only a technicality, but since you need to be anal about it, I'll have the detail obsessive version so you can follow the discussion too: "RSS doesn't define support active content, which is what's used on other channel to build in depth analytical tool that go beyond page view. without active content, analytic is in control of the reading software, a big step back from other content delivery protocol. even email could be used to track engagement using unique links for each recipient, but most reader software has an incentive to cache reads and not to forward unique links, letting content provider with the only option of syndicating link and summaries, causing a natural bias for clickbaiting titles, because driving user to the producer is the only way to get back analytical data. this has caused a steep decline in the availability of rss content and viability of rss for consumers."