Google News

Very resourceful magazine database that will keep you busy at your free time while informing you about the latest technological innovations, financial news and other various themes. Only one inconvenience: users need a gmail account to use this app.

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Not useful. There should be a block feature for sites that people don’t like

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Scrolling have bugs

Night mode please

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The new app, compared to the old Google News it replaced, shows some grave usability deficiencies: - When you open an article, swiping right to go back to the news feed is very hard to get right, if at all possible. Yet swiping left and right will inadvertently move to other (unrelated) articles in the same group, in an unspecified manner. Very frustrating, especially when this clashes with swiping controls on a web site. There should at least be an option to control the swiping behavior, so that it could work like in the old app or be disabled. - In the old app tapping harder/longer on an article would show a pop-up option to open with a browser (which can take advantage of reading mode and any ad blocker). In the new app this option is hidden in the sharing menu, much harder to get to. Please make it easier to open with a browser. This is very important for navigating the typical content-sparse news sites out there. - Content snippets when expanding an article were quite useful in the old app, even if short and not consistently available for all articles, as they would help you tell apart the irrelevant, clickbait articles that regularly flood the Google News feed (the title alone is never enough to do that). I understand the removal of this feature might be driven by legal concerns, nevertheless it will be sorely missed. - Overall, the new app does a full reload of the news feed more often and unexpectedly than the old app, effectively reducing the time you get to browse the full news feed. Not sure if this is dictated by technical reasons but it is also frustrating.