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Google news is a mess and doesn't work. Perhaps if you had all the requisite subscriptions. As of right now, it seems to direct you to a family of many publishe

Google news is a mess and doesn't work. Perhaps if you had all the requisite subscriptions. As of right now, it seems to direct you to a family of many publishers with separate plans. This makes google news itself pretty hard to use. I think complaining about "paywalls" in general is stupid, but it's really hard for the news reader this way. Part of the problem for me, is it seems like it's still very hard to get away from the web 2.0 part of news anyway. Is subscribing going to reduce the clickbait journalism? Nope. I have apple news, and the quality of what I see isn't exactly encouraging me to go out and buy more subs. I will probably still get shotty, rage inducing content, just like I get on reddit. By the way this same pattern seems to hold with local stations. In fact local publishers more pay walled, for important local stories. I think you could argue these are the subs I should pay for the most.

stevenhuang 3y ago
Do you click the rage bait content, read it, and don't tell the recommender system to not show you things like that in the future? Because everything in my Google News is about my interests: - article about cmake from kitware - article about AI alignment from lesswrong - article physicists creating a new form of antenna from phys.org - article about benchmarking rpi5 from rpi.org - travel ad to Casa Batlo as I've just been to Spain ... I can keep scrolling and it's all articles from quality orgs on content related to my interests, without having subscribed to anything, and I get zero flame or bait content. You need to tell the recommender system you're not interested in bait content by "showing less" instead of clicking on them.
- P_I_Staker 3y ago
  I have to wonder if I am just having a disability exploited. I think I really have trouble avoiding these ragebate stories. It's just too tempting to get in, get a rage fix and move on.

stevenhuang 3y ago

Do you click the rage bait content, read it, and don't tell the recommender system to not show you things like that in the future? Because everything in my Google News is about my interests: - article about cmake from kitware - article about AI alignment from lesswrong - article physicists creating a new form of antenna from phys.org - article about benchmarking rpi5 from rpi.org - travel ad to Casa Batlo as I've just been to Spain ... I can keep scrolling and it's all articles from quality orgs on content related to my interests, without having subscribed to anything, and I get zero flame or bait content. You need to tell the recommender system you're not interested in bait content by "showing less" instead of clicking on them.

P_I_Staker 3y ago
I have to wonder if I am just having a disability exploited. I think I really have trouble avoiding these ragebate stories. It's just too tempting to get in, get a rage fix and move on.