Spammed through Google Reader

by rob on July 29, 2009 · Comments

One of the great things about RSS feeds is there really isn’t any spam – you sign up for what you want. It’s better than email in that way because if they do happen to spam, you just unsubscribe and it’s done.

But a week or so ago Google Reader decided to become more “social” in letting you follow other people’s shared items AND for others to invite you to follow theirs. To decide if you want to subscribe to them, you can preview their feed.  And today I got spammed this way.

Google better get a handle on this fast!

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  • Oh no! I'm so glad you let us know Rob! This is awful; Google will fix it once they realize that no one wants this (I hope).
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