Feedly Was Stealing Your Content — Here’s the Story, And Their Code

Last week, Feedly rolled out a controversial new “feature” – hijacking feed links to steal traffic from millions of bloggers. Redirecting shared links with Feedly to Feedly’s own view of the article instead of the article itself on the original site is a concern for original content creators on many blogs. It not only results in loss of traffic, but is also deceptive for those who follow a particular blog. Here’s the full story of why people are angry, and how one blogger helped to right the situation. I also delve into their source code to show you just how...

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