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Re:Google Reader shutting down by Samuel_Michon on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:37PM (#5371902)
If that was a problem, they should've offered paid subscriptions. I refuse to see ads, but I'll happily pay for the privilege.

I find the Google Reader web interface to be dreadful and ugly, so I never go there except to manage my RSS feeds. Third party devs have created newsreader apps so much better than Google did, it's not even funny.

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Re:Google Reader shutting down by pohl on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @07:45PM (#5371955)
If that was a problem, they should've offered paid subscriptions.

Yeah, but they don't want us as customers, they want to sell us as Soylent Green out the back door.

With this news, the only remaining things I'll use Google for are search, GMail, and some libraries like Guice & Guava.

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Re:Google Reader shutting down by tracker1 on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @11:41PM (#5372952)
That's more than me.. without iGoogle and Reader, I don't see much use in them for search now.
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