{"id":1044341,"date":"2022-08-16T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1044341"},"modified":"2022-08-16T18:09:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T22:09:02","slug":"chrome-feed-is-tantalizing-but-its-not-the-return-of-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1044341","title":{"rendered":"Chrome \u201cFeed\u201d is tantalizing, but it\u2019s not the return of Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Google.Chrome-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Google.Chrome.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"683\" data-width=\"1024\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products&#8217; most devoted fans? It can seem that way.<\/p>\n<p>Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome build is a &#8220;Following feed&#8221; that has some bloggers dreaming of the return of Google Reader. It&#8217;s unlikely, but never say never when it comes to Google product decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2022\/03\/25\/google-chrome-side-panel\/\">added a sidebar<\/a> for browsing bookmarks and Reading List articles back in March. Over the weekend, the Chrome Story blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chromestory.com\/2022\/08\/feed-in-chrome-side-panel\/\">noticed a new flag<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/developers\/gerrit-guide\/\">Gerrit<\/a>, the unstable testing build of Chrome&#8217;s open source counterpart Chromium. Enabling that\u00a0<a class=\"permalink\"><code>#following-feed-sidepanel\u00a0<\/code><\/a>flag (now also available in Chrome&#8217;s testing build, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/canary\/\">Canary<\/a>) adds another option to the sidebar: Feed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1874111#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1874111&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1874111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome \u201cFeed\u201d is tantalizing, but it\u2019s not the return of Google Reader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images) Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1044341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1044341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}