I subscribed to AppleNews for a while because I thought, I’ll get some news without being on something like Facebook, and I can like/dislike things for signal a

I subscribed to AppleNews for a while because I thought, I’ll get some news without being on something like Facebook, and I can like/dislike things for signal and avoid all the celebrity crap. And the thing is, it mostly worked, but not quite enough. For example, I found that downvoting every article on a topic wasn’t enough to give it the signal, “stop fucking showing me this topic.” (And this was true even when there were literally hundreds of articles on the same topic. I had to do this with Elon Musk-related news around the time he bought Twitter.) Then I learned you could block entire topics. That helped, except when it didn’t. Despite having downvoted hundreds of articles on a topic, and then actively blocking the topic, sometimes it would just show me news articles about the specific thing I asked it not to. At this point I’ve lost any hope of finding a solution to getting the news I want without a ton of extra crap. I have ad blockers, but the news sites are so shitty to use. I wanted AppleNews to work, but there are too many ads and it doesn’t actually show you just the stuff you want. It’s constantly trying to push other stuff at you, the very thing I was paying to avoid. I give up. I’ve just stopped reading news altogether. This is what the industry has come to. It no longer contains enough value to even deal with.