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Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by itafroma »

guptaneil wrote: post #39
itafroma wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you rely on Google Reader for your daily workflow, figuring out which service or application is a suitable alternative after Reader closes is too late. Unless you're hoping for a 180 from Google, which there's no evidence to support right now, waiting just cuts the amount of time you can use to test the alternatives while still having access to Google Reader as a fallback.

One good reason is that the RSS reader landscape is going to change drastically in the coming months as other developers jump to fill the hole left by Reader. The app you end up using may not even exist yet. Sure, the cost of switching is low, but it still seems like a waste of time to start searching now when so much will change in the next 3 months.

If you're sure the app you'll end up using hasn't been made public yet and the current alternatives are not going to do it for you, that's a risk you can take, definitely: but it's still a heck of a risk if Reader is integral to what you do online. At any rate, I don't think it's that hard to understand why thousands of people are already making contingency plans this far out.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by donniezazen »

pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Can anyone say that these extensions make a clear distinction between access and store? As long as they don't store any information about pages I have visited or text I have entered in a browser, I don't see much trouble.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by r4vik »

pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

repack without the most heinous permissions: http://ge.tt/3os1cIb/v/0?c it's quite good - shame they ask for those.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by Rickasaurus »

fdb wrote: post #50

It scares me that they add 500,000 users and I don't understand how they make money. At this point I'd like to either pay for a service or use something self-hosted to make sure I don't have to go through a painful transition again.

They must be selling your info. Just look at the Chrome access: "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing activity"

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by maratd »

fdb wrote: post #50

It scares me that they add 500,000 users and I don't understand how they make money. At this point I'd like to either pay for a service or use something self-hosted to make sure I don't have to go through a painful transition again.

> or use something self-hosted

Take a look at: http://www.feedafever.com

Just installed it. Works just like Google Reader, with a few bonus features. I don't have to worry about being shut down anymore.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by abhinavg »

icelancer wrote: post #25
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this. Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.

Was very excited to try Newsblur. It's not free, for those wondering, and free accounts are temporarily suspended. Oh well. Time to move on.

Newsblur is fully open source.

You can host it yourself if you do not want to pay for it.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by mkr-hn »

fdb wrote: post #50

It scares me that they add 500,000 users and I don't understand how they make money. At this point I'd like to either pay for a service or use something self-hosted to make sure I don't have to go through a painful transition again.

They mentioned (on Twitter) plans to offer premium options in the future. They also have ads, so that may be how they pay for it now.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by cheald »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #19
pan69 wrote: post #2

Add to Chrome: - Access your data on all websites - Access your tabs and browsing activity Yeah, right. I'm an idiot?

Also it adds a button to the bottom right of every web page. I immediately uninstalled when I learned this. Newsblur has no such shenanigans and is developed by a HNer.

You can turn the button off in the preferences easily enough.

I think they ask for site permissions so they can extract RSS URLs out of the page via aforementioned injected button. Either way, Chrome extensions have visible source, so it's not too hard to vet it.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by rmrfrmrf »

maratd wrote: post #55
fdb wrote: post #50

It scares me that they add 500,000 users and I don't understand how they make money. At this point I'd like to either pay for a service or use something self-hosted to make sure I don't have to go through a painful transition again.

> or use something self-hosted Take a look at: http://www.feedafever.com Just installed it. Works just like Google Reader, with a few bonus features. I don't have to worry about being shut down anymore.

Until your favorite blogs realize that RSS is just a money sink and shut down their feeds, which is exactly what Google is subtly prophesying and no one seems to get.
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