[parrellel]

You mean Google+ needed promotion so the Reader product was killed.

[emodendroket]

In the first place they'd rather you used something other than RSS so they can inject promoted content into it.

[rlac16]

Nothing stops promoted content being injected by the feed reader. Feedly does it on their free plans.

[asfasgasg]

Google+ only existed in the first place because of the thing that was killing the medium and its one hundred and forty character-limited cousin.

[parrellel]

As I look at the big list of RSS feeds I found this very thread in, I can't help but imagine that news of it's death is a tad exaggerated.

[asfasgasg]

Well, there's that too, but people complaining about Google's decision r.e. Reader don't like being reminded that there are dozens of alternatives.