When the search giant (a competitor of Yahoo's, it should also be disclosed) announced the changes last week, unhappy users launched an online petition urging the company to bring back the old version,Kids Warm Spyder Ski Pants, even before Google's engineers had rolled out the new one. Some users even protested in front of Google's Washington, D.C., offices--carrying signs that read "Google: Don't Mark All as Read," and "We are the 1000+."

The main issue for most of the new Reader dissidents is the service's wider integration with the Google+ social network. Google Reader's sharing functions will now be done through Google+--and that shift will force current users to use Google+.

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