Feedly switches from Google OAuth to Google+ for authentication: causes user outcry
It is somewhat understandable from a business perspective that Google is pushing its social networking service Google+. The company recently switched to enforcing Google+ on YouTube, so that users of the video streaming service need to be a member of Google+ when they want to comment on the site. Earlier this year, the company introduced the same on the Play store.
Update: Recent versions of Feedly support additional authentication options: users may sign in using their own email address or authenticate using services such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Twitter.
Google, in the meantime, shut down Google+ for consumers. End
The RSS feed reading service Feedly announced yesterday that it made the decision to switch the authentication service from Google OAuth to Google+ as well.
What this means for users of the service is that they need a Google+ login if they want to sign in to Feedly. This change affects paying and free users of the service.
Currently only the web interface has been switched, but the company decided to switch the mobile clients for iOS and Android this month as well so that all Feedly services require a Google+ account for authentication.
Feedly has never offered standalone authentication options before. It was previously linked to a Google account, and the main change now is that users are forced to create a Google+ profile as well to continue using the service.
What fueled at least some of the user outcry about the change was that it was announced after it went live on the web interface part of the service.
All is not lost though, as Feedly announced that it would enable alternative login options in the coming weeks. What those are? Facebook, Twitter and WordPress are explicitly mentioned by the company, and while that will please some users, the lack of a standalone authentication option is something that at least some users seem to want.
It may however take up to seven weeks before the other authentication options are implemented leaving Feedly users who do not want to create a Google+ profile with no other option than to not use the service for the time being.
If you are a Feedly user you can make your voice heard -- probably -- by voting for this on the uservoice website. It suggests to create a standalone authentication option for Feedly so that users can sign in to the service without having to use third party services, or in particular Google.
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Update: Feedly announced that it will roll back the change.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.