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abhibeckert ,

Google didn't just kill Reader that day, they killed my love of Google.

There have been plenty of services I used at Google that they killed however Reader was the one that didn't have any good alternative. It was the one that hurt the most, and I don't think I have signed up for a single Google service since the day Reader was killed.

trekz ,
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What do you use for RSS feeds now?

tet42 ,
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Feedly is the closest thing to Google Reader that I’ve found.

trekz ,
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Nice, I use Inoreader. And openrss.org and rss.app for websites that dont have RSS feeds.

I’ve been able to get pretty much everything I want to follow on the internet in my RSS reader. I even subscribe to Lemmy communities in my RSS reader instead of on Lemmy directly 😆

sculd ,

That was really the moment people realized Google is going downhill.

I moved off Gmail, GDrive. Use DDG for personal stuff and only Google at work. The only irreplaceable thing seems to be YouTube but whatever. I am not trusting any new product from Google.

Aztech ,

What is your recommendation for a mail replacement of Gmail ?

sculd ,

Protonmail, Mailfence

Aztech ,

Thanks

tom42 ,
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I always wondered why Google took this choice. With the help of this article I understand now.

RSS ist still not dead but many commercial websites and platforms are not interested in this because it is harder to monetize.

Although the advantages are obvious. An RSS feed is much more accessible in many ways. It is most times better readable, sortable, offline savable and more efficient to get. What is even better for the environment because a with scripts and external content overloaded web page has a much higher carbon fingerprint.

Google Reader died and so ATOM/RSS will because the lack of commercial success.

kronusdark ,
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Man, google makes great stuff and ruins it.

Deebster ,
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And kills it.

SinAdjetivos ,

“embrace, extend, and exterminate”

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