{"id":235,"date":"2005-04-02T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T22:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-10-09T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:20:42","slug":"unsubscribing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2005\/04\/02\/unsubscribing.php","title":{"rendered":"Unsubscribing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As before I am posting here when I unsubscribe from feeds.  I do not bother mentioning ones that just stop updating etc, thats just the normal life cycle, some annoy me though and force me to unsubscribe.<br \/>\nAs I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/09\/17\/lockergnome_rss_spammers.php\">mentioned before<\/a> I understand why people put ads into RSS feeds, and I do not mind them in full text feeds.  A very good example of good ads would be those found in the feeds from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">boingboing<\/a>.<br \/>\nNow to todays offenders, the fine people from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\">Security Focus<\/a> have started putting ads into their feeds, their feeds contain like a 1 or 2 line summary of the article and does not even usually contain a very usable  clickable link to the full story.  Now though as if that isn&#8217;t stupid enough they also include a text ad that by my rough estimate is about 5 times as big as the actual readable text in the feed.  Get Real people, would you watch TV if the advertisements lasted for 45 minutes and the program for 15?<br \/>\nI hope you lot get a clue soon, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be rushing to subscribe to any of your feeds again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As before I am posting here when I unsubscribe from feeds. I do not bother mentioning ones that just stop updating etc, thats just the normal life cycle, some annoy me though and force me to unsubscribe. As I mentioned before I understand why people put ads into RSS feeds, and I do not mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}