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Google wants your data so it can better target you with ads (how Google makes money). When they realize they want more from you they change things around to ma
by jayfuerstenberg 14y ago
Google wants your data so it can better target you with ads (how Google makes money).
When they realize they want more from you they change things around to make that easy.
If/when they figure out it costs more money to run that pseudo-free service they unplug it.
People then get upset. But that's not Google's fault. We need to consider ourselves lucky that it lasted as long as it did.
- michaelwww 14y agoI tried it, didn't like it and moved on to a newsreader I liked better. The only explanation I can come up with for all the emotion is that these people have abandonment issues.
- jayfuerstenberg 14y agoA lot of people fail to understand that free services still need to be paid for and Google's business model has ad merchants paying most of the bills. As long as this is true Google will remain loyal to them before it's loyal to the end users. RSS is an open format and because of that you can choose whatever news reader you like. I hope you'll enjoy whatever app you've found.
- michaelwww 14y agoI've been pretty happy with Feedreader for the past year, except the built in web browser control on Windows is pretty lame -- not Feedreader's fault, but Windows - so I open up with a double click to Chrome when I want to view the original.