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I deleted the news app when it was flooded with News+ articles

• ninkendo 6y ago
  I made it a habit to block every channel that came up as News+, now it ends up being a decent enough experience. (You can tell that the algorithm generating the feed will always leave at least one spot for a News+ article though, which means it has to dig deeper and deeper into weird recommendations since I keep blocking every News+ channel. I’ve seen golf digest, good housekeeping, and a bunch of obscure ones come up before I block them.) It’s a real shame, too. I watched the keynote where they announced News+ and I got really excited about it. I thought it was a really good deal and I was happy to pay money to get real journalism from reputable sources. But alas, they shoved it in my face from day one. You couldn’t browse regular Apple news without giant News+-pushing article previews shoved in your face, entire sections of the UI dedicated to getting you to accidentally click an article you don’t have access to, etc. A personal policy of mine is to not engage with a platform if I feel I’m being “engineered into it” (with things like UI dark patterns and constant nagging reminders to sign up for a free trial, etc), so ultimately I never signed up for News+. It’s a real shame. Same with AppleTV+: Apple used their market position as the company that makes my AppleTV to try and shove TV+ and Apple Arcade in my face at every possible turn, so I won’t be signing up for them (again, a shame, because there were shows I actually wanted to watch on there and I literally have a free year of it. Sorry Apple, not if you’re forcing it down my throat.)