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What the fuck.

Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/

Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png

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Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

Could be an oversight. I think "manage my contacts" is a default permission requested when not explicitely setting the scope in OAuth...

This is not an oversight, it's even mentioned in their privacy policy [0], although I also stopped at that point. Whenever I see a service requesting permission to even have a look at my contact list, I really wish there were a button like "No, I really don't need this social stuff because I know noone in my contact list uses your service anyway and if someone does, I really don't care".

[0] http://theoldreader.com/pages/privacy

Thanks. That rules out the Old Reader for me. I think they should make it optional: only ask for this permission if I try to use the social functionality.

That they would make such an oversight makes me even more uneasy with giving them access to my data.

At least in Google Reader one can email articles, and it auto-suggests email addresses of your contacts. So Google Reader already has access to your Google Contacts.

Perhaps The Old Reader just does the same?

I hate that too. When I get some free time, I'll create a new gmail account, import my Reader feeds to that, and sign in to theoldreader using the new gmail account. I suppose this will solve the problem, but it would be best if the good people at theoldreader fix it themselves.

They address some of the problems in their new blog post.

http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/45337829605/unexpected-day...

Indeed - I stopped short for exactly the same reason. Can't imagine why I'd want a reader app to mess with my contacts in any way.

That's where I stopped and shall not try it ever if they don't remove and no, I am not going to create a new a/c for that. I mean it's totally for spamming purposes - either to me or my contacts.

By the way, interface looks cleaner, I wish so were the intentions :-)

https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:reader

http://theoldreader.com/feeds/import

"Thank you for uploading your OPML file. We will soon start importing your subscriptions, which might take up to several hours depending on the amount of feeds you have.

There are 22325 users in the import queue ahead of you."

It may take some time indeed... I have 114 subscriptions and some of them can be dead now, as I haven't used GR for quite some time.

The Old Reader actually looks really good. If only it had an Android app...

So I added a feed to theoldreader, and it shows as last updated: 14 hours ago, even though there's been posts since then. Google Reader has already picked them up. The Old Reader sure lives up to its name of delivering me old news...

Other alternatives I tried are also disappointing. July 1 will be a terrible day for the Internet.

theoldreader.com looks like a good alternative

It actually is pretty decent.

theoldreader seems to have died on my feed import to the best I can tell, anyone seen anything similar? It says it is still working in the background, but no update past the first 3 it imported...

It's definitely slow right now.Just wait a few minutes.

FINALLY. I let it work overnight and they finally showed. Now if only they would work on the OAUTH limits mentioned above.

I guess you had a lot of feeds.

can I register to theoldreader if I don't have a facebook/google account?

No.But you should already have a google account since you used google reader I suppose.

I have, but I don't feel comfortable with this: "The Old Reader is requesting permission to: View and manage your Google Contacts"

There should be more info about this here but the page is currently down. https://theoldreader/pages/privacy

Ouch, what font rendering is that?

Customized freetype for excessive eye bleeding.

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