Last month, Google announced that it was overhauling its RSS aggregator, Google Reader, in an effort to drive more people to Google+. The changes went live today, and now, rather than having the option to share articles with other users within Google Reader, users have to go through Google+ instead. It might not seem like a big deal to most of the service’s users, but for a select few, it’s a major source of outrage.
A group of Google Reader obsessives called the “sharebros” (yes, this is a real thing) launched a petition asking Google to revert its Reader back to the old version, and so far, have managed to get more than 10,000 signatures.
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