Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles

Posted by timothy on Friday November 8, 2013 @12:13PM from the rapids-pulling-you-downstream dept.

somegeekynick writes "Feedly users, a lot of whom migrated from the now-defunct Google Reader, are now finding out that they will not be able to login to the service without a Google+ Profile. In a blog post from Edwin Khodabakchian, which was posted almost at the same time the change rolled out, the reason for the change is stated as following Google's own move from using OAuth to Google+ for authentication. What has riled up a lot of users, as can be read in the comments, is that this change has come without warning and a lot of feeds are now being 'held hostage' by Feedly, especially for users who are reluctant to create Google+ Profiles."

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Not a Story by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-08 12:22 · Score: 5, Interesting

From TFA:

[Update 2: The change has been rolled back: you can now go to http://cloud.feedly.com and login using the old Google Authentication mechanism. The main lesson we learned here is that user should control how they want to login to login to their feedly. We will make sure not to forget this. Have a good week end].
Nothing to see here. Move along.