Ultimately they deleted the blog post announcement (though it is preserved on Internet Archive ). This is used to notify employees of a potential security risk if they travel or work at locations where violence emerges. When I expressed my disappointment on Twitter and canceled both my paid subscription and my account, Feedly responded with the same message they’d copied-and-pasted to several others: Protests, Feedly seems to say, are something that us customers should constantly fear will turn violent and therefore surveil in order to protect our “assets” - not something we might want to, oh I don’t know, support or participate in. In a world of widespread, suspicionless surveillance of protests by law enforcement and other government entities, and of massive corporate union-busting and suppression of worker organizing, Feedly decided they should build a tool for the corporations, cops, and unionbusters. They help security analysts track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company’s assets and employees. Today, we are excited to release two new Feedly AI models: Protests and Violent Protests. That made it all the more disappointing when on Thursday I saw that they were advertising a new feature: I happily recommended it to anyone looking for a good feed reader. For some websites that I found illegible due to their design choices or overzealous advertising, I liked that Feedly’s in-product reader reformatted articles in a very comfortable and readable way.įeedly eventually joined the short list of software where I signed up for a paid subscription despite not needing any of the paid features, but just because I got so much value from it and wanted to support the company. There was an Android app so I could browse my feeds on the train. It was free, cleanly designed, browser based, and I could set it up to show me my feeds in simple chronological order. Later, RSS would become critical to how I keep up with what is happening in the crypto industry.īased on the oldest emails I can find, I’ve been using Feedly since at least 2015. Eventually, Google unceremoniously tossed Reader into their discarded products graveyard, and I had to find a new service to keep up with what had by adulthood turned into multiple feeds for news, my favorite blogs, and an expansive list of recipe websites that I consult when I want to cook something new. I’ve been an avid RSS user since high school, when I lovingly curated my feed of silly websites to read in Google Reader after school.
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