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Fix the darned bugs please!
It’s a great app for reading news, but is plagued by bugs that the dev team just does not seem to care about (I can say that, because they have been around for over a year and I have reported them more than once)
When you remove a news source from you feed or if you remove a saved story from your saved stories, a banner appears at the bottom saying “source removed” or “story removed”. The only button shown is “undo”. There is no dismiss button and no way to swipe the banner away. That would be ok if the banner went away after a few seconds, but it just lingers there day after day. Sometimes it’s just annoying, at other times it makes it impossible to read an article because it covers the accept and reject buttons of the cookie consent pages that sometimes pop up and cover the whole page. The only way to get rid of the banner is to force quit the news app. Way to go for user experience. As I said before, I reported this bug several times, but the Google News team either doesn’t care about user reviews and bug reports or doesn’t even bother reading them (which I guess is the same thing). It would take a developer about 10 minutes to add a “dismiss” button to that banner. Just do it.Show lessR.0.b.
Fix dark mode widget
Here is your 1-star for Google’s reluctance to fix dark mode widget issue. Under dark mode, the news widget will show a border on the left and right side of the widget.kevin13379
Ads make it nearly impossible to use
I understand that a free service needs financial support and that advertising revenue is what makes free news possible. But there comes a point where the product becomes useless when overrun by popup adds and dynamic ads. Many times I’ll be part way through an article when an ad causes the article to disappear and I have to refresh, find th article, and then find my place again. Almost every article is nearly impossible to get through due to dynamic ads that change size and cause the content you’re reading to shift up or down by several paragraphs. It’s come to the point where the feed is only good for seeing headlines that you may want to investigate on other platforms. Also, there is so much useless data being processed that my phone gets hot and the battery is consumed more quickly. Hey Google, ads will only bring revenue if people use your product and see the ads. When your product is unusable, few people will see the ads.Show lessTJ_Wuth