What are the best news aggregators that people use these days? I have fallen back to using news.google.com, which Im not that too happy about, but it does seem to work ok for me.
Itās a shame. It was a good news aggregator. Much better than the news app included with iOS. Youād think if they lost the comments section/moderation and added some ads and a premium ad-free tier, it couldāve stayed in business. Also surprised they didnāt find a buyer whoād want to slap their name on existing tech.
I tried it as a replacement to Apple News and found it to be much worse.
As the other comment said, the āAIā integration was poorly implemented and didnāt allow enough tailoring to make it worth it.
The comments and social features shouldnāt have been implemented.
On top of that, it didnāt have big news publishers like the Atlantic. Had plenty of listicle BS from sites Iād never heard of before. As I scrolled through I found myself thinking āwho TF is this?ā.
Not terribly surprised. When I tried the app out I didnāt really get the appeal. It was like adding a comments section to existing news feeds and didnāt provide enough tailoring or algorithmic understanding of reading habits to be a compelling offering.
Besides the fact that they were using a chrome embedded browser, meaning I couldnāt even ad block on the sites I visited: which made the reading experience nearly impossible.
It had a built in reader mode to bypass the shitty ad-ridden websites. My favorite feature was the block words list. No more stories with the word ākardashianā for example.
The main attraction for me was the reader mode which blocks all ads, it also pushes similar articles from different new sites that I have never heard before (its a nice thing).
I found it worked pretty well, seemed to understand my interests pretty well after a couple days, when I usually donāt feel that way, having tried many many similar apps. The chrome web view wasnāt ideal, but I use pihole which helped :)