The user subscribes to a feed by entering into the reader the feed 's URI often referred to informally as a `` URL '' -LRB- uniform resource locator -RRB- , although technically the two terms are not exactly synonymous or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process .

The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed 's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that begins the subscription process .
