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RSS Live Links RIP

September 11, 2014 by Ryan 5 Comments

So I was looking at the row of extension buttons in Google Chrome, specifically hunting for the RSS Live Links icon so I could catch up on search news.  When I realized…it was gone.  I looked in my list of installed extensions to see if it had gotten switched to inactive for some reason.  Nowhere to be found.

Where on earth did it go?  I hunted around a bit, and found this.

As the original author of RSS Live Links, I sold the extension in January to what I thought would be a safe home. Unfortunately, that home then sold it on. I have contacted the new owners and have received a very curt reply that Google pulled the extension (I have not been told why) and that they are working to reinstate it.

I apologise to all for this – my intention when selling it was to ensure its continued survival in the face of my lack of time to maintain it.

Well, isn’t that unfortunate.  Fortunately I found a good replacement: RSS Feed Reader.  If you’re a Chrome user looking for a good RSS extension, seriously check it out.  It’s everything RSS Live Links was and then some.

Now, if you’ll excuse me…I need to go hunt down a bunch of RSS feeds.  🙁

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  1. Dodutils says

    February 28, 2015 at 6:09 pm

    Hi, your post is quite old but I still have and use RSS Live Links.

    I first tested RSS Feed a few years but then discovered RSS Live Links that was really much more efficient to use than RSS Feed Reader and whenever it has a much nicer graphical interface I still prefer RSS Live Links.

    By the way it is possible to copy an installed extension into an other Chrome.

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  2. AS says

    June 9, 2016 at 6:57 pm

    In case anyone else pops into this site doing the same research I did; I’ve been using RSS Live Links for a while now but I think I just figured out why Google yanked the extension.

    RSS Live Links is serving up the Ad by Advertise ‘malware’.

    I started seeing it’s crap overlays on several webpages today. Systematically disabled my extensions until I found the culprit – RSS Live Links. Disabled and the crap overlays went away, re-enabled and they returned.

    Off to find a different RSS feeder…

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    • Ryan says

      June 9, 2016 at 7:14 pm

      Know what? I was having the exact same problem today. RSS Live Links is indeed the culprit. Such a shame – it’s always been my preferred RSS feeder.

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      • Gabe says

        June 13, 2016 at 10:02 am

        Just found the same problem here, that RSS Live Links is serving up that “Ad by Advertise” crapware. Once I deactivated that, the problem went away. Will need to find another RSS app, I s’pose. Sorry to see such a good app go bad.

        -Gabe

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  3. Ryan says

    June 13, 2016 at 2:22 pm

    This is the one I’m using for now. Seems like a suitable alternative so far.

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