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I never get the moaning about killing Reader. It was never about popularity or user experience. Reader had to be killed because it [was seen as] a suboptimal a

I never get the moaning about killing Reader. It was never about popularity or user experience. Reader had to be killed because it [was seen as] a suboptimal ad monetization engine. Page views were superior. Was Google going to support minimizing ads in any way?

theptip 8mo ago
Right. Reader was not a case of apathy and failure to see the product’s value. It was Google clearly seeing the product’s value, and killing it because that value was detrimental to their ads business.