Shoves right wing news down your throat
Used to be able to filter away bad faith news sources like Fox News. Now Google’s algorithm shoves right wing fascist news down your throat.
Why ?
Why install news on peoples phone that wanna charge us to view it ? Keep this bs to yourselves then
There is no audio
There needs to be audio on the apps so if you have a vision problem, you can hear it versus reading every It’s not a problem, but it should have audio built-in These app apps do not have audio built-in if someone can direct me to it I will be grateful
Locks up
I had to delete this app. After clicking on a New York Times article it locked up and kept trying to force me to enter my email and sign in to Google which I didn’t want to do. No back arrow or way to close the window. I think their only goal is to collect meta-data from you. Which I understand but when they decide to force it on you, that’s where I draw the line. Do not instal this app.
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No option to remove pay walled source
When it comes to social media and news there is apparently no money in allowing users to choose their own content and instead they choose deliver a never-ending stream of curated content. Google News doubles down on this and no longer allows me to remove pay walled sites or sources that I don’t like. The lack of control and choice is intentional and never going away.
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Most articles require paid access.
Most articles require paid access. Such a waste.
Crashes
You get 1/3 of the way through an article, and it crashes. Almost every time.
Do better!
Do better!
Still leans too far left
Still believe most of the news stories are leaning too far left. But it does have two good points that makes me use it every day. First, you can actually hide news stories from people you don’t want to see for whatever reason, that is a good thing. Second, the “follow” section makes it easy to follow topics that you want to see. I really like that section and use it a lot. Thank you for it. As far as the ads are concerned, they’re gonna be there. I really nothing you can do about it.
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Crashes
Articles with lots of ads and pop-ups will crash the app over 50% of the time. This has been a long term problem that I’ve hoped they would improve but they never do. Otherwise I love the app.
now forces X to be in a news source
No matter how you try. No matter how hard you look. No matter what you do. You can never get rid of X as a new source. It appears to be the only required new source for Google News and X gets to report, unverified, bogus, untruthful, rumors as legitimate news. Shame on Google. Shame on Google. Shame on Google.
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Thumbs down
No really, thumbs down is the problem with this app. No matter how many times I click “suggest less” it keeps feeding me rugby, cricket, tennis and MMA stories. The algorithm appears to be impossible to train, rendering thr app useless.
Uninstalling after 1 day of frustration.
Uninstalling after 1 day of frustration.
Not current; not news
Wikipedia is more current than Google News. I’m tired of a news feed that shows articles from days or weeks ago. C’mon Google!
Constant lockouts
Been using google news for a long time. It’s honestly a good source for headlines but the use stops there. Yes some articles are free and others cost money which is understandable. What isn’t understandable is why when you do hit a paywall your entire app is locked down. You can’t go back. You have to close the app. I don’t believe an app should be allowed to lock your phone down like that into a pay trap - I won’t call it a paywall because you can turn back from a wall.
Also the app is full of clickbait and advertising that hijacks your phone screen.
It would be easy for Google to fix this but money is more important to them and they will never do anything.
Also the app is full of clickbait and advertising that hijacks your phone screen.
It would be easy for Google to fix this but money is more important to them and they will never do anything.
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Terrible App
This app is horrible. Every time I click the thumbs down “fewer articles like this,” it puts an article in the down-rated article’s place that had the same headline, only from a different outlet.
Very Buggy
The app seems to have some pretty major bugs. I regularly will have the article I’m reading disappear half way through due to an unexpected error.
Spoilers Galore
God forbid I google two things about f1, this app literally constantly spoils race after race and movie and show after moving and show. It's like there is literally no filter over what notifications are allowed to be sent. So now i have to disable having the entire concept of news notify my of anything from my phone because google can't just allow you to not spoil things.....there is no setting to turn that off. This app is trash and old.
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Far left ad filled crash-app
I don’t mind left, right and center articles, but this app pushes the far left agenda. Go figure. 90% of the news stories require a subscription to each and every different news outlet.
With all of the trackers on top of that, I’m deleting this app. Garbage.
With all of the trackers on top of that, I’m deleting this app. Garbage.
Awful. ZERO STARS.
Rather than Google News, this app should be called Google Spam Advertising and Clickbait.
The “news” is hardly earth shaking, focusing on lost pets, favourite recipes and brands .
Real, global news….zilch. Nothing. Don’t waste your time on Google News. It’s not news, it’s puffery at best.
The “news” is hardly earth shaking, focusing on lost pets, favourite recipes and brands .
Real, global news….zilch. Nothing. Don’t waste your time on Google News. It’s not news, it’s puffery at best.
Least reliable app on iPhone
If you like being disappointed on a daily basis, this is the app for you. Clearly very little Google investment going on here otherwise the “There was an error displaying this content” problem would have been fixed years ago. Great at organizing all the world’s information; not so great at showing it.
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Useless!
This used to be my "go to" news source. Now, almost every item of news has a paywall, and you have to go somewhere else to get even the basic facts. Also, there is more sports stories than anything else, and you can't filter out this worthless junk.
