http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416575,00.asp

Sigh. Off to find some subpar reader I suppose.

Thankfully Google+ is still running strong!

3/13/2013 9:02:33 PM

What the fuck.

And good point. Why leave the failure that is Google+ running and shut down Google Reader? Assholes.

3/13/2013 9:31:15 PM

because google+ is an identification engine for tracking you, not the social network it fails to be. google reader makes little money since google+ cookies/google analytics get goog almost the same info/ad vectors

3/13/2013 9:36:46 PM

shame, use Reader for RSS constantly

yay for the era of social? bleh

3/13/2013 9:41:19 PM

*shrug* i use google reader about 10% of what i used to say 5 years ago.

i don't think anybody should be surprised by this. reader hasn't done anything new in years, chrome doesn't even handle rss feeds. google has been de-emphasizing rss as a preferred means for the web to distribute content for years.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rss

[Edited on March 13, 2013 at 9:48 PM. Reason : .]

3/13/2013 9:44:12 PM

also, xml streams don't contain ads.

3/13/2013 10:10:33 PM

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/13/4101534/feedly-clones-google-reader-api

3/13/2013 11:30:46 PM

The lowering popularity of RSS is what everyone points to, and you know it's true, so this makes a lot of sense.

There's been speculation they might roll something into Google Currents, which I personally use and love.

3/14/2013 3:39:26 AM

I am extremely pissed about this. I use Google Reader constantly. Lifehacker has a decent article for alternatives.

http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives

What do you guys use instead?

3/14/2013 9:38:33 AM

I use Feedly

but really I don't use RSS feeds on my computer much anymore, that is usually only on my phone

3/14/2013 10:02:03 AM

there are a lot of blogs that i like to read, that i wouldn't remember to check for if not for google reader over the last few years.

that said, i'm going to go with feedly i think.

3/14/2013 10:24:40 AM

google also just killed adblock apps in their app store.

3/14/2013 10:30:39 AM

i guess i'll have to manually update adaway, then...because it changes so much

3/14/2013 10:47:42 AM

and they just finished making "release builds" auto-update: https://adblockplus.org/en/development-builds

3/14/2013 11:22:16 AM

Everyone on Hacker News was recommending this: http://www.newsblur.com/

Anyone have any good recommendations?

[Edited on March 14, 2013 at 6:42 PM. Reason : a]

3/14/2013 6:42:10 PM

Are there other options that link up to Reeder? The biggest pain in the ass if there is t is finding a new reader but the read/unread wouldn't sync across all my devices. Would think google could keep this thing up and running given all the random worthless crap they continually put out.

3/18/2013 10:16:12 AM