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Cruise Ships . Keep them off our Australian shores.
Keep the cruise ship passengers off our Australian shores.
Don’t let them in. Charity starts at home. We can’t save others if we are sick ourselves.
Thank you google news for the frequent updates.CE~1
Non stop pop-ups
Since the last update, when I open some articles, a window on Safari opens up.
I hope a fix is on the way soon. The app has been experiencing some issues lately.MarcosTO
Decent News App but...
The range of sources is nice but many stories lead to paywalls and really hinder what stories I read. Also, if I click on a certain kind of story just for the hell of it, the algorithm goes hog wild and pesters me for days or weeks to the point that I’m less inclined to just click around on a whim. Or to click on an article whose bias I do not share but want to read against the grain. Just because I click on something does not mean I support it or detest it either. There are more subtle gradations of choice-making that the feed seems to not pick up on. How could it? I have no idea, that’s Google’s job. Lastly, it would be nice if one could put in a block on certain things - terms, names - that one is not interested in at all like Kim Kardashian. I’m sure she’s nice but I really just don’t care and do not need to be reminded anymore about how much I do not care.Show lessko mo do
It’s very helpful to have news, that knows my interests.
It’s not perfect, for instance it thinks that I’m absolutely mad about sport, I’ve told it I don’t want sport, but no matter, everyone likes sport, wether or not, they actually do. In the same way, as in advertising, everyone who likes electric vehicles, is somehow supposed to like internal combustion vehicles, they’re noisy, stinky, high maintenance, costly to fuel. But I still get tons of adds, for 4 wheel drives. It also forgets everything, I select, you have to read it there and then.Show lessStuNBNChipumnkHall
Bye bye privacy!
Can you believe this feature? Google News spent the last 4 months badgering me to sign in so they can tailor news to me. I don’t want my news chosen for me. I just want a spread of news.
Fast forward to today and I notice Google News has automatically signed me in to all 3 of my accounts! And there is NO option to sign out!
Why is that even a feature? Why is it literally impossible to just read some news without signing in? Garbage change to an already average method of reading news. Eat it, google.Show lessCbcahc
Best in Class with a Bug or Two
I honestly prefer Google News over Apple News because it incorporates my Google search history and provides stories I might like. The problem with that is it “uses my Google search history to provides stories I might like”. Apple News uses learning too but while it’s more private and isolated on my device, it’s siloed. Whereas Google gives me a far reaching spread of news tailored for me by my behavior.
The iOS app refreshes when I leave the app (while reading an article). This is annoying because when I go to return to the article, the app refreshes and goes to the “for me” section from the start so I can’t return to the article that I wasn’t finished with.Show lesschdleoj
Push notifications only work sporadically
It would be the best news reader I’ve ever used if the notifications worked properly. I’ve tried reinstalling it and the notifications come back for a couple days, but then stop again.
Otherwise I love it. It has a great range of sources. It seems to learn what I’m interested in much better than Apple News. I love the “full coverage” button that brings up stories related to the one I’m reading. The layout is both pleasing and functional. I like that there’s a tab for stories tailored to me and another for top headlines in general.
If they fix the notifications, or if you’re lucky and don’t experience that bug, it’s an easy 5 stars for me.Show lessEmbassy1010
Much nicer than Apple News app
I don’t use the Apple News app anymore because the Google News app is so much better. The layout is much cleaner and easier to navigate and read. Animations are lovely and smooth. It feels like there are way more sources in Google News and the reading experience on iPad is much more comfortable. It’s a very smooth app. Also, it surfaces the right news at the right time and I find it easier to train than the Apple News, because every article has a “more of this” or “less of this” toggle so you can easily tell it what you like. I still use RSS for a concentrated view of my tech news, but for general overall news this is the best.Show lessdaniel.gomes
Large icons , inefficient screen space
no magazine subscription support, all paid content is almost unusable black screens no navigation ,. Despite paying money Google give no support.
The download content feature does not work. Although it downloads once offline it mostly displays this content is not available offline. If you connect to inflight access point this app fails to authenticate, but then it rembers that and so requires you to authenticate which can only occur after the flight has finished
The currated content displays identical stories from different magazines , that is a story written by the one author published by two magazines. It even does this when I say don't display stories like this on one of them.Show lessnickname 1234563
A truly unpleasant experience.
I have been using this app for a few days now. Despite my repeated attempts to dismiss news stories about Burger King’s new 1$ tacos using the “Show fewer stories like this” option, which I have done more than 20 times, the app continues to present me with article after article about the tacos. The same goes for celebrity gossip stories, sports articles, tech product reviews, and any article that mentions the name “Phillip Schofield.” I would estimate that I have dismissed around 100 to 150 articles about these topics, but they continue to show up more frequently than anything else lose in my feed. Show me well written articles about politics, foreign policy, economics, criminal justice, or anything of actual substance from a genuine news source, please! Even “following” specific topics and sources doesn’t seem to do anything. I’ll be deleting the app as soon as I am done with the review.Show lesskilnelf
