Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
  • abhibeckert@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Google didn’t just kill Reader that day, they killed my relationship with 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.

  • sculd@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Bleu [they/them]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    God, I miss Reader. It really was a great thing that Google ruined because they couldn’t somehow cram ads into it.