[antr]

My company has a blog with c. 40,000 RSS subs, and the most valuable FeedBurner feature is the tracking/visitor display option. On the other hand, this new service wants users to pay for it... competing with free tends to be a lost battle.

[robotmay]

I suppose they're betting on people who don't want to trust Google with anything regarding RSS these days. I wouldn't think FeedBurner will be shut down (as it must be useful for crawling), but I could understand people being worried.

[antr]

I understand the whole "trusting Google" thing, but RSS ain't email or search behaviour. These RSS services are simply passthrough/syndication services, and no real sensitive data is handled (unless I'm missing something else?).

[michh]

Google has been killing most of its RSS-related products (most notably Reader). People are concerned FeedBurner might be next.

[PavlovsCat]

Yeah, worrying about Feedburner is not new.

http://css-tricks.com/lets-say-feedburner-shuts-down/

This recent NSA stuff may help with motivating people to actually switch, but it's not really needed as a reason.

[johnchristopher]

I think it's more about trusting google to keep the service running.