I would love to use Feedly but Feedly requires an extension to use who's only possible purpose is to spy on you. The extension provides zero features that could not be provided without it. Since it's required (as opposed to optional) the only logical explanation is its spying on you.
They used to require an extension but they don't any longer. Also, their mobile apps are amazing. I don't believe Google Reader had anything like that.
Correct! I use The Old Reader, free, because it's awesome. I remember now why I did this choice, and indeed invasive browser extensions which ask for * access to all my sites are a big no-no. Whenever I want to use a web-screenshot tool, I do it in a separate profile.
The extension was required to cache articles back in time when local storage sucked and feedly's infrastructure was not big enough to handle influx of all of the people who had to leave Google Reader.
