Bad form giving me spoilers without a warning
I have used the google app for a long time. One of the main reason i use it these days is for the news stories it offers in an easy to read format that are relevant to me and my interests. Recently I noticed the news stories popping up being repetitive, unwanted, and often times inappropriate. I used to be able to swipe to get rid of news stories and I can no longer do that. As silly as it seems, that is extremely annoying. The stories tend to revolve around a topic I may have looked up once and not something I would like to be updated on constantly. Often I’ll read a story only to find it persisting in the feed. I’ll say that I’m not interested in that type of news story only to find it again only labeled under a different “subject”. Most recently it offered a story that offered spoilers on a show I’ve been following. What algorithms google uses to show my stories needs to change. I am close to deleting the app just because of frivolous reasons.
Update: I deleted the app because I hid the SAME STORY 5 times and it kept popping up. I was tired of google forcing me to read what they thought was important rather than what was truly interesting to me.
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Google, v44.0