Some of us won’t forgive Google for having removed Google Reader from its ecosystem of services in 2013, but it seems that we are witnessing the resurgence of RSS feeds for tracking news from our favorite websites.
In this sense, we have to remember that Google launched its new news reader in Chrome for Android last year, and everything seems to indicate that the company is working to bring its news reader to the desktop version of Chrome, also including ChromeOS .
Initially discovered by About Chromebooks, it is likely that let’s see the newsreader as part of the Chrome 106 stable releasealthough the function is currently under development, without being functional at all, despite the fact that it can be activated in version 106, which is currently in the Dev channel, now it will only be possible to make the menus of this function visible, showing error in its operation.
With the release of the news reader in the desktop version of Chrome There will also be improvements in the news reader present in Chrome for Android devices. An interesting aspect is that the newsreader will be able to extract information even from websites that do not have an RSS feed.
This will avoid having to resort to third-party services that try to generate RSS feeds to websites that lack them.
Casually, Chrome is also a bit late in this regard, as alternative Chromium-based web browsers have had their respective built-in news readers for some time..
The worst thing is that this situation will make us depend on specific browsers to have our lists of websites, just as it happens with our bookmarks and history.
We do not know if at some point there will be the possibility of a synchronization service between several browsers. An advantage in the case of the new Google option is the fact that you can manually select the websites to follow.
Far away is the fact of being able to access the Google news reader independently of any web browser, so for this it will be necessary to resort to some services specialized in monitoring the news that are published by the favorite websites that continue to be available after many have closed their operations throughout all these years, since until now it was a feature used by a small segment of users.
