Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/google-kills-rss/

by florent_k • 13 years ago

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anon1385• 13 years ago

>The extension, which previously placed a small, orange RSS icon next to the website’s URL in the Chrome address bar, no longer functions even on Chrome browsers where the extension is installed and enabled.

So how have they disabled it in browsers where it was already installed? Does it use some backend service that they have taken down? Or was it disabled by a silent Chrome update?

fjarlq• 13 years ago

It, RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) v2.2.0, is still installed and working in my Chrome. It does not seem to use any backend service. It just reads RSS information on a webpage and creates subscription links for you that go to the RSS webreader of your choice (I've been using Google Reader with it).

But, the extension's website has been removed: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...

I believe that version (the original) was written by a Google employee, Finnur Thorarinsson (finnur at chromium.org): https://plus.google.com/104317586100499660731/posts

Another extension claims to be a fork, but I don't know any specifics: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...

Achshar• 13 years ago

It will be there, but it wont sync to new systems. It will be treated like a local install.

pavs2• 13 years ago

Its working just fine here...

prathibhanu2• 13 years ago

I take this as an opporunity to develope something like multiplx.com. Check it out

feronull• 13 years ago

promo code ? :)

pavs2• 13 years ago

Not sure why down-voted, but here is a screenshot to show that its still working for me: http://i.imgur.com/rzJNMGE.png

Tried it under OSX, Ubuntu, Windows7. Working in all of them.

marban3• 13 years ago

Hate the GR shutdown but that seems just like a logical house cleaning consequence.

sergiosgc• 13 years ago

Only if you assume the extension existed to support the Google Reader service, which is false. RSS is a standard with many uses outside Google Reader.

marban3• 13 years ago

Sure, but what was the default service?

onemorepassword• 13 years ago

I'm one tinfoil hat away from believing this isn't just about discontinuing unprofitable products, but a concerted effort to kill off support for open standards (RSS, CalDAV, what's next?) and turning the Google universe into a Facebook/Apple style walled garden called Google+.

Evil plan or not, the days of Google as the champion of the open web are over.

kirushik• 13 years ago

Obviously, the next step is XMPP federation protocol support crippling in GTalk: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-fede...

est• 13 years ago

At such pace, Google will take out Google Takeout.

MatthewPhillips7• 13 years ago

That ship sailed a long time ago. I see it as when they gave up on Friend Connect / OpenSocial as when they sort of gave up on the idea of open-first, and instead started focusing it competing feature-for-feature.

Mozilla is the champion of the open web these days. Google started their proprietary NaCl and Dart projects because they claimed you couldn't make JavaScript any faster than it currently is. And now Mozilla is embarrassing them with emscripten and asm.js.

derefr5• 13 years ago

You know, I keep seeing this "proprietary NaCl" statement around, and having played with it myself, I have a bit of a soapbox. There's nothing proprietary about NaCl: all the specs are open, and Google actively wants Mozilla and others to support them.

To be charitable, though, I guess what most people mean by "NaCl is not open like Javascript" is that it's low-level--compiled binaries instead of readily-accessible script. And that's true; it exposes less to the user--and although it would be perfectly possible for every NaCl module to be debuggable through the browser with embedded symbols, just like Javascript is, it hasn't happened yet.

But you know, NaCl isn't for that, as far as I can tell. It's not a thing to write the business-domain logic of your web app in. It's far too clunky to develop with, if that were the intent.

Instead, what NaCl seems perfectly suited as, to me, is an architecture for writing pluggable scripting-language virtual machines. In other words, to give freedom of choice to use a backend other than V8 to write your web app against. Java-in-the-browser, Ruby-in-the-browser, Erlang-in-the-browser; any of those would be possible, and just as transparent+useful as Javascript-in-the-browser (in fact, V8 itself could be lifted out to being just another NaCl module.) And since the site would deliver the "runtime" for the scripts itself[1], any compatible browser could pull it down and execute it, instead of waiting for IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc. to all adopt the new language before anyone can start using it (a Sisyphean wait.)

There's already one perfect example of how this all would work: Adobe Flash. Flash is, in Chrome at least, an NaCl (PPAPI) module. Now, Flash isn't a shining example of openness--but using a custom interpreter is not where it goes wrong.[2] You can easily imagine Flash without that problem: a world where you can have <script type="text/actionscript"> and the Flash runtime will reach in and execute that code, just like the Javascript runtime reaches in and executes your JS.

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[1] This doesn't necessarily have to be true, though. The browser can come with default language runtime modules, and then the webapp can suggest a site-specific runtime module, but the browser doesn't have to take that suggestion. Which is exactly the way a thing that is considered "open" on the web works: fonts! Think of an NaCl module as being no more or less than a custom @font-face rule for the execution of a script.

[2] Flash goes wrong by embedding its programs into proprietary binary asset packages [SWFs]; goes wrong again by drawing everything onto a single canvas, not allowing for anything like DOM manipulation; and then goes wrong a third time by having only one de-facto implementation with no open standard.

lucian1900• 13 years ago

NaCl (in particular PNaCl) is merely a different approach. I would call asm.js crazy, but that's just me.

Something similar could be said about Dart, but there the language itself is not so interesting (merely not insane). The VM is potentially the language-independent bytecode and stdlib in a browser we've all been waiting for.

While Google have been behavin evil-ly lately, in particular related to Google+, NaCl and Dart are not examples of this.

michaelwww4• 13 years ago

> Google started their proprietary ... Dart project because they claimed you couldn't make JavaScript any faster than it currently is

No, they didn't. Google started Dart because they had a bunch of Java programmers who were having good success building JavaScript web apps such as Gmail with Google Web Toolkit. They thought to formalize it with Dart instead of using a hacked up Java dev environment. I have a client who needed a web app fast, so I took a chance on Dart and did it in half the time. The client doesn't even know I'm doing it in Dart. I'm shipping the minified js file which works on all modern browsers because the Dart team set out to bring jQuery up to a higher level. There's a bright side to all the dislike and misinformation about Dart though, because it gives me a competitive edge.

mistercow2• 13 years ago

>Google started their proprietary NaCl and Dart projects because they claimed you couldn't make JavaScript any faster than it currently is

I don't remember them saying that. I remember them saying that JS has insurmountable performance problems, but that's very different from saying that JS is as fast as it can get.

As for asm.js, it's another approach to the same problem. An insurmountable problem for a VM usually means that there's a limit to how well the VM can reason about arbitrary code. The clever thing about asm.js is that it gets around that by just restricting the language rather than inventing a new one. The clever thing about Dart is that you would rather write in it than kill yourself.

And yes, of course asm.js is meant to be written by compiling via emscripten, but that means trading far more dynamicness for speed than you would with Dart.

acdha2• 13 years ago

I was with you on the first paragraph but the second goes off the rails on the second sentence. It's hard to say that Google isn't also championing the open web unless you claim that Chrome isn't a Google product - NaCL and Dart are interesting experiments but it's not like Google hasn't poured a TON of expensive, high-quality time into creating an industry-leading JavaScript engine (along with CSS, HTML5, etc. support) and put a similar amount of time into evangelism, developer outreach, etc.

Even if Google cancelled Chrome tomorrow, the entire open web community would owe them a debt of gratitude for administering the coup de grace to IE's reputation as the only significant desktop browser and pushing Mozilla to heavily invest in performance and the user experience – they cared about them before but as we can see now, setting your goal as “better than IE” was still too low.

There were a bunch of nice things which happened around that time – Firefox, Safari, iPhone, etc. – but the thing which really opened the desktop market moving was Chrome shipping a radically fast, user-friendly browser which you could install even on typical corporate IT-mismanaged desktops and which you never needed to think about updating. Web standards advocates had spent years preaching using standards first and fallbacks for compatibility and related ideas but the rise of Chrome seems to be what got the mainstream web developer to really internalize that idea and start coding with the assumption that the browser would improve before they revisited a site.

monkeypizza• 13 years ago

For years I've used gchat & status (& temporarily used buzz) as a light social network for friends, and it worked great. But now they've made it so mouseovers on the status don't work as well, and generally cramped up the design so status messages aren't as visible... could be part of the same plan.

Andrenid2• 13 years ago

This is actually the final step for me.

I've been an avid Google fan since the early days. I use all the Google services, I use Chrome religiously, I convince family/friends to switch to Chrome from IE, and I've always been convinced Google is the one we're supposed to look up to for how things should be done.

Yeah they've made mistakes, and G+ is a clusterfuck of brilliant talent thrown down a horrible path of closed socialness and realname ridiculousness... but overall I always thought they were still on the right side of "Don't Be Evil".

I'm totally convinced this quiet attack on RSS is a not-so-subtle attempt to push people into G+, and even though I casually use G+ (about the same as I casually use FB or Twitter), G+ is NOT a replacement for RSS, and it's not how I want to keep track of all the sites I read. I don't want to "like" them or add them to my social networks. I just want to read their shit. Simple.

RSS doesn't care if you're logged in. RSS doesn't care if you use your real name. RSS doesn't care if you're accessing it from work, home, or anonymously via an internet cafe. And that's exactly how it should be.

Throw in the Picasaweb crap they're doing now too, FORCING you to use G+ Photos (which is a horrible horrible experience), and I'm done.

I've just installed Firefox on all my home computers and my phone, for the first time since Chrome came out, and will be looking for a new RSS aggregator.

zanny• 13 years ago

I don't get where this sentiment comes from. Ever. They are a publicly traded multi-billion dollar company. Even if they hold onto their startup-esque purism for a decade after their founding, they of course fall from grace into the profit motive pitfall because that is how the investor driven market capitalism system works. Never put blind faith in a corporate entity, because they all transition from consumer-driven-product-with-creative-vision to maximize-stockholder-returns-and-short-term-profit. It is how you do business in the big leagues. Google just had the lucky case of having a slow transition, probably due to good decisions in the early years.

I get that HN has this startup culture where creative people come up with "cool things" to sell, and are product oriented rather than profit oriented (though a lot of them seem to love the idea of selling the business off to a big business like Google, walking away with the pocket change, and watching it flounder into obscurity under corporate oversight...) but big business isn't run by people who have product vision, they have profit vision, and these companies are the amalgam of hundreds of managers and overseers that don't have collective vision and can thus only drive it towards what they can all agree on - making higher returns. It happens to the best of them.

mdm_2• 13 years ago

I suspect this as well, which is why I deleted my G+ account in protest the other day. It was remarkably easy to do, both practically (just click a couple buttons) and sentimentally (in ~2 years there has rarely been any activity from any of my contacts, and I follow most of them on Twitter anyway). I've heard people hem and haw over deleting their Facebook account; G+ offers no such difficulty.

ok_craig• 13 years ago

I don't understand why these changes make you switch from Chrome to Firefox.

There appears to be a really prevalent attitude here on HN that you can either really love or really hate a company. If you like it, you use all their stuff. When the switch in your mind flips and you know you must instantly start hating them, it means you must stop using every instance of their software, whether it's related or not to whatever your issues were.

It seems kind of silly.

mark_l_watson4• 13 years ago

"I don't want to "like" them or add them to my social networks. I just want to read their shit."

+1 this nails it. I do share content links a few times a month on twitter and g+ but basically I want to read interesting stuff.

I have also started to realize that I rely too much on HN and Prismatic - nice sources of interesting material, but still limited. This appropriate shit storm over google moving to a walled g+ garden has increased my use (again) of RSS.

fizzbar2• 13 years ago

Slightly OT, but what do you find so bad about the G+ photo experience?

Kiro4• 13 years ago

RSS is a broken standard so I would be happy if you were right.

chris_j• 13 years ago

What is it about RSS that is broken and what would you like to see replace it?

jms182• 13 years ago

Yes, RSS 2.0 has a bunch of problems. That is why this -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 -- was developed.

IETF standards have a history of longevity, and I suspect this format will be around a very long time.

michaelwww4• 13 years ago

I'm not understanding all the people saying this kills RSS. There are plenty of RSS readers out there.

mcintyre19942• 13 years ago

Agreed. If an open standard was relying entirely on a company not to 'kill' it, it was already dead as an open standard.

diegocg• 13 years ago

If google wanted to kill RSS they would stop supporting RSS in their products.

digikata• 13 years ago

I've actually been wondering if there's a pattern to these closures related to some scaling issue on the Google infrastructure. Google tends to build services tightly integrated with a common fabric. Scaling issues might cause the design of smaller services to take more than their share of resources.

Consider that Reader and other small services needing event and data synchronization, were often started by independent "20%" teams, earlier on in google's infrastructure build out. So maybe services at a higher priority are needing those resources. Or maybe they're looking at upgrading the "google fabric" in an incompatible way and if you have to redesign fundamental assumptions through the code of smaller services, you might stop and take a hard look at seeing if a large rewrite is worth it.

cs702• 13 years ago

Embrace, give away, extinguish:

  1. Embrace [open web standard].
  2. Give away [standards-based product].
  3. Extinguish: if/after competition evaporates, discontinue product.

Result: walled gardens.

MatthewPhillips7• 13 years ago

Extend works fine here. Google product's are chock-full of extensions to open standards, which is why we have so many Gmail-only email clients floating around out there, etc.

lignuist• 13 years ago

Twitter has disabled RSS this month too. Is RSS too open for the big players?

snsr• 13 years ago

Less control of presentation == fewer ads.

craftman2• 13 years ago

Yes, I think this is exactly what all of this is about.

baby6• 13 years ago

I disabled it on my blog a long time ago because I want people to actually come to my website to read my posts. See the "related" posts and the "comments" section etc...

I guess it's even more obvious if you have ads on the website.

craftman2• 13 years ago

Dont know your site, but be sure I would never come back to it if you dont have a RSS feed (and leave it within 2 secs if there is any ad on it).

streptomycin3• 13 years ago

You can have an RSS feed that doesn't include the full post, just a title and maybe the first sentence or two. A lot of sites do that (Salon.com comes to mind immediately).

jms182• 13 years ago

If you don't have a news feed, how would a reader know to check for new posts?

If you expect readers to check your site daily, that doesn't scale very well. I follow 200+ blogs; I would never be able to remember/bookmark all of them to visit regularly.

icebraining4• 13 years ago

That's what Yahoo! Pipes is for.

streptomycin3• 13 years ago

No they didn't. Still works: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_...

They have said they're planning to get rid of it sometime soon, though. Sucks for people like me who used Google Reader to keep track of Twitter RSS feeds, ha. Google Reader is really easy to replace, at least. I'm much more upset about Twitter.

icebraining4• 13 years ago

Building bridges is not really that hard. I have a few transforming closed "feeds" into RSS running on my VPS.

saraid2164• 13 years ago

What exactly is it about Twitter that's indispensable for you?

choko• 13 years ago

I don't understand what people use to see new information from multiple websites at once if they aren't using RSS. Are they actually visiting 10 or 20 websites a day manually? Do "normal" users stick to just a few websites?

ricg• 13 years ago

They like the site on Facebook and follow updates on their wall. That's what I noticed "non-technical" friends and family do.

Evbn• 13 years ago

That's so... Not open.

tazjin• 13 years ago

I consider myself a very technical person, but I never saw a reason to use RSS feeds (or Reader for that matter).

There are not a lot of "content websites" that I follow (Fefes Blog, Beautiful Pixels, MacRumors...) but rather content aggregation websites like HackerNews or Reddit, which I use to get my daily dose of news (not just tech but all kinds of categories). And yes, I check those manually, often on my phone in the respective apps, and it does not at all feel like a hassle. I've tried using Google Reader and other feed managers like Feedly but never got used to them.

For personalized news I look at the two social sites I follow (App.net and Twitter).

Semaphor• 13 years ago

It would be damn annoying for me to check fefe several times, find the last link I read and start above it. And that's for his somewhat low-update blog. Stuff like techdirt is way worse with ~50 or so posts per day.

ldh3• 13 years ago

Sure, RSS isn't ideally suited for "news" when you can just hit an aggregation site or two. But it's extremely useful for following particular content you're interested in regardless of popularity. If I come across a particularly insightful, well-written blog on some obscure programming topic I'd like to read more of what that person has to say without having to remember to check back at some point or cross my fingers that enough cool kids upvote it on an aggregator.

And the best part about Reader (and now The Old Reader, for me)? The comments come from people I mostly know or are vouched for by people I do, so there's a distinct lack of inane Reddit-y comments.

Kiro4• 13 years ago

You don't need updates from 10 to 20 websites. Find one or two good aggregators. HN and Facebook are enough for me.

ldh3• 13 years ago

Don't tell me what I need. A lot of people like following more than just content that gets picked up by the hype machine, just like some people aren't satisfied only listening to top-40 music. Aggregators are good for new discovery, but they don't know more about what I'm interested in than I do.

tomjen33• 13 years ago

I do.

icebraining4• 13 years ago

HN and such aggregators are nice for fluff content, which appeals to a broad range of people. More specific content either isn't aggregated, or the aggregators themselves are so niche that they only update once in a while (e.g. Lambda-the-Ultimate). And frankly, while obviously none is indispensable for my life or well-being, I'd rather miss out on HN than on the smaller blogs and feeds.

subsection1h• 13 years ago

    HN and Facebook are enough for me.

Do your favorite researchers post comments at Facebook regarding their latest papers?

tsm• 13 years ago

>Are they actually visiting 10 or 20 websites a day manually?

Some do. My brother, for example, has several dozen political or gun-related blogs that he reads religiously. He doesn't even keep a bookmark list--he just remembers all of them, and visits them one by one when it's time for reading, keeping track of which posts are new. I showed him Google Reader and suggested it would streamline things greatly, but he just grunted it off and said he liked doing things the way he liked doing things.

baby6• 13 years ago

Bookmarks. I personally have multi row toolbar and Tree Style Tab on Firefox. I really see no need for RSS (and yes I tried it[1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5383772

camus3• 13 years ago

bookmarks dont update themselves automatically when new articles are available ,dont tell you what you've already read or not and are not an open protocol to share information across websites.

saraid2164• 13 years ago

I visit sites manually, and the overhead of doing so is one of the ways I maintain self-control over being overly consumerist about my information. I didn't actually get any benefit from using an RSS reader 5 years ago and I don't think I'd really get much benefit today.

eli• 13 years ago

My wife just starts typing the name of the site she wants from memory and the browser auto-completes it. No readers, no bookmarks. I would guess quite a lot of people browse the web this way.

Udo• 13 years ago

I think they're going to shut down Blogger next.

It's a neglected platform at best, and it too encroaches on some partial functionality that could be offered by G+.

Picasa is in the process of being absorbed completely into G+. We're in the middle of a massive consolidation. They're closing down and walling off everything they can. When the smoke clears Google will have transformed from an open standards company into exactly the same walled garden everybody else is offering.

mark_l_watson4• 13 years ago

+1 This is what I have been concerned about also. I rely a lot on Blogger, Gmail, and (now) G+ photo albums. I like the way Blogger is easily mapped to a sub domain (blog.markwatson.com) and I don't have to run blogging software myself. GMail has been central in my workflow and I like the convenience of taking pictures on my droid phone and have all pictures auto uploaded to G+.

However, I have been thinking of starting an open source project that would be a one JAR deploy that would support personal photo album with easy sharing, blogging, live messaging (ironically I would like to use Apache Wave), and perhaps email (but probably not). I believe that since most technical people have their own servers and many of us are tired of walled gardens that this might garner a few users besides myself.

mark_l_watson4• 13 years ago

Also: for many years I have forwarded email from my own domain to GMail. I am going to stop doing that even though I really like their anti spam service. It probably makes more sense to just use my gmail account for access to customer's shared google docs, etc. in other words, still use useful Google services but stop relying too much on them.

I also now prefer paid services. Evernote and Dropbox, for examples, are clearly motivated to support me because I am a customer not a product.

cowkingdeluxe• 13 years ago

This is one of my concerns as well. I use blogger for clients as well.

They've shut down or are shutting down a few things I've used a decent amount, iGoogle, Reader, occasionally Code Search, and now their XMPP usage is in doubt (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-fede...) which I use for OTR instant messaging. I really liked being able to go explore Google Labs as well.

While losing any of the above isn't crippling, I certainly didn't expect to lose them, and it will make me have additional questions about using other Google products.

I guess it magnifies the difference between web and desktop apps.

Flenser• 13 years ago

Someone should create a site with estimates of how long it will be before google products are shut down based on when they last had a new feature added or were blogged about, in a similar (although opposite) vein to the predictions on http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

shrikant• 13 years ago

I think FeedBurner will go before Blogger.

They've already been neutering it for a while now, the site is still on design that pre-dates the G+ visual overhaul, and Google is clearly actively looking to snub RSS now.

nsns• 13 years ago

It seems that every decision that betters Google+ hurts the Google brand. If Google+ is the new Google, then Google is now Google-, obviously.

The fact that they are (allegedly) surprised at the amount of people using Reader is a tastement to how insignificant it is to their business.

mcintyre19942• 13 years ago

They're not at all surprised, can I ask where they said that? I'd love to see how a company that makes billions by knowing as much as possible about their user base words the idea they're surprised by a quantity of users on a product of theirs.

nwzpaperman2• 13 years ago

I know from some of the parties that have shown interest in my company that the highest levels of media are very concerned about being not just marginalized, but trivialized.

We have made ZERO deals for, always, one or both of two reasons:

1) The investors want to control the content and under the CDA/DMCA definitions be publishers.

2) The belief that people are unwilling to pay for news.

Up until 2012, there were doubters that online subscription is the only bet the industry can make to persist. What the interested parties will absolutely never agree to is a system that they don't retain absolute control of the message with.

It is just my speculation now, but I believe they thought I wouldn't get an actual information exchange built without their resources and assistance. I did and now there is some panic because we are one break-out event away from changing the news industry forever. I say forever because people will see a different future and want that once they understand it.

After six months in open beta I know what needs to be done and it isn't pivoting. Mostly UI and colors with some feature polishing. This next iteration will polish the foundation of the nwzPaper system and then we will integrate the facilities to complete the incentive structure and adapt the article ranking as volume builds.

We will be doing some new licensing arrangements to balance the need for producers to earn something with the need for news information to be public, accessible, available and free.

As a developer, you should look at nwzPaper as a central locking agent in a distributed system.

camus3• 13 years ago

dude you must be on good kush ...

nwzpaperman2• 13 years ago

That is legal in Colorado, but I abstain just to be safe!

perlpimp• 13 years ago

I'll go out on the limb and suggest that google is trying to kill the ecosystem that nurtured it and focus on more mainstream nanny and media for to be cosumable for ages 10-14 or some such number. News papers target groups with lower intelligencer ratio and TV goes even further.

With that I don't think google wants to support independent internet anymore - it does not go well with investors and profitability. And can roust some smart minds that just might bring the whole google empire to its knees(or more aptly make it irrelevant). At this point google can be called the internet in some sense. And if such status can be argued for then it is not interest for google to support resources out side of its "google is the internet" domain.

Most companies go through such cycles and it seems that google is sort of outgrowing itself. It is sort of popular with G+ but largely it has failed in the social arena. I has captured some market share with lowcost android phones. But there is no certain future in Silicon Valley. One can say google is tired and is withdrawing from being rapacious inventor and instigator of new technologies.

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my 2c. Just an opinion :)

jmharvey• 13 years ago

When Google announced they were killing off Reader, the big problem was that there was no obvious alternative. That's not the case when they remove features I like from Chrome. I hear Firefox is pretty good these days, I'll probably try switching over and see how I like it.

Too• 13 years ago

Less people reading rss => More people reading on actual web sites => More people exposed to, and maybe click, embedded adsense ads from google + More user behavior data from google statistics.

Simple as that.

tytso• 13 years ago

As I noted recently, Google Currents is an Android application which uses RSS. And it is a product which has been getting updates, and is available at the Play Store here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

So if people think Google is getting out of the RSS business, here's a counter-example. Personally, this is how I browse my favorite news/blog sites each morning, looking for interesting content (which can be easily shared via G+ or other any other link sharing service; unlike iOS, it's easy for any Android application, including Google Currents, to share content with other Android applications, whether it be G+, or Evernote, or Digg, etc.)

neves• 13 years ago

It is a concerted effort to kill ways to access data without seeing ads. They are killing RSS and forbiding Ad Block em Google Play.

Go Firefox, Go!

justinkelly• 13 years ago

hey guys

i've forked the google rss extension, updated it and loaded it to the chrome store - so that it works with feedly, newsblur and theoldread * have removed google reader, igoogle etc.. from the list

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-subscription-e...

cheers

justin

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