"How Google helped destroy adoption of [[RSS feeds]]" - Open RSS
https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds
I'm not sure it was a concerted effort more than it was caused by distributed disinterest, but a good read/summary here.
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