{"id":1624,"date":"2013-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/03\/14\/1573\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T23:00:00","slug":"1573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/03\/14\/1573\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Winer: Goodbye Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/threads2.scripting.com\/2013\/march\/goodbyeGoogleReader\">Goodbye Google Reader<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won&#8217;t miss it. Never used the damn thing. Didn&#8217;t trust the idea of a big company like Google&#8217;s interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Totally agree. Doesn\u2019t hurt me. I\u2019m using <a href=\"http:\/\/netnewswireapp.com\/mac\">NetNewsWire<\/a> without its Google Reader sync functionality; all my subscriptions are on my local disk. Sync would have been nice but since the demise of Bloglines (which I used for a long time) I don\u2019t trust any free Web service with this. Turns out I was right.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase a popular song: \u201cHow many times must a man be surprised by &#8217;spring cleaning&#8216; before he can see that he can\u2019t rely on Google? The answer, my friend\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry, but if you have a slight understanding of the tech world you\u2019re stupid to think any free service cares about your content, your URLs, your identity, your e-mail address, or your feed subscriptions. Google Mail, Google+, Facebook, Twitter will all cease to exist or do bad things to your data at some point in the future. If you\u2019re in this for the long term, host your stuff yourselves, or pay someone for it. And keep local backups in an open format.<\/p>\n<p>(NetNewsWire is also free, but since I\u2019m running it locally I can migrate away from it on my own terms if necessary.)<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2013\/02\/22\/1560\">No one cares about your URLs (so buy a domain)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer \u2013 Goodbye Google Reader: \u201cI won&#8217;t miss it. Never used the damn thing. Didn&#8217;t trust the idea of a big company like Google&#8217;s interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news.\u201d Totally agree. Doesn\u2019t hurt me. I\u2019m using NetNewsWire without its Google Reader sync functionality; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}