[On March 6th I wrote](https://brooksreview.net/2012/03/explanations/):
>Right now — I don’t want anything to do with Readability. I am, however, going to let things cool down before making a final decision.
[Later that same day John Gruber linked to that post and said](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/06/brooks-readability):
>Like Brooks, I’ve never been comfortable with the way they collect money on behalf of publishers. And their app is nowhere near as good as Instapaper.
Once Gruber posted that I started to get a flood of comments from friends. The common theme was: “I agree with you.”
I didn’t want to make a decision that day, but as I read more and more about Readability it made me sick.
Rich Ziade of Readability reached out on Twitter asking me to ask him any questions. I took him up on it and sent this email to him:
As of this writing I still haven’t heard back, but I also used the contact link in the help section to request that https://brooksreview.net be blocked from Readability and that my publisher account be deleted — you see unlike a user account there is no `cancel account` link.
Again, as of this writing, I still have not heard back and https://brooksreview.net is still not blocked, my publisher account is also still active.
[Readability states](http://help.readability.com/customer/portal/articles/267462-how-can-i-opt-out-of-readability-view-):
>If you don’t want your website content to be available in Readability view, you can exclude your content from being processed by contacting us directly. We’re always happy to help.
Except I asked them to do this five days ago and not only has it not happened, but they seem to just be ignoring the request.
That seems awfully shady.
Update: Chris Dary of Arc90 responded to me on Twitter and got me opted-out. Thanks to him for that.