• morrowind@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Why not? That’s based on the current system of websites loading in third party ad providers. If you include the ads in the article/have sponsors etc. they will come through the rss.

    It’s not perfect, but newsletters are making do it with just fine. I read a couple newsletters with them but make no effort to remove them like I do with web articles, because they are not disruptive, inappropriate, heavy or privacy invasive.

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      10 months ago

      Newsletters =/= RSS feeds. Newsletters provide a direct way to talk to your audience about subscriptions, fundraising, merchandise, etc. in a way more effective way than RSS feeds provide. Additionally, newsletters require me to give them my email address, which they can use for promos and all sorts of purposes (or sell off). That’s not even getting into all the granular data they get via trackers and suck in newsletters.

      An RSS feed is me grabbing a periodical off a stand. A newsletter is giving them my address and mailbox.