• MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Disclaimer: I don’t use News+. This is just what I think I remember from some podcast episode a while ago.

    IIrc: it only does this for the Top Stories feed which is a handful of stories handpicked by Apple. It would be weird if your Top Stories was super short or completely blank because you happened to block all the right sources. Your regular feed should be filtered.

    • Quicky@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Thing is though, There’s plenty of sources I haven’t blocked. It’s basically just the Daily Mail and a shitty red-top, so I can’t believe they only curate the sources that I’ve blocked. In which case the feed should consist of headlines from the other huge array of other news sources.

    • Quicky@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I mean, this is specifically mildly infuriating, and there are other positives to it.

      • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I have a really comprehensive list of RSS feeds for different topic. That I have been updating and pruning since 2010, I use Read You on Android and a GNOME Circle app on Linux (can’t recall the name tbh)

      • ComradeMiao@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I’m hosting a dockerized image of freshrss on my server which I can access as a webapp on my phone.

        I believe there are plenty of phone apps and websites that can do the same! :) I would search rss app in the App Store. If they’re FOSS I would consider that better.

        Can add feeds for anything! I have news, YouTube, podcasts, Lenny, and some reddit

  • gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Oh fuck it’s spreading. I hadn’t seen this pattern before until I started using LinkedIn for job hunting (it’s what Australia uses, trust me I’m more unhappy than you are lol). We won’t show you this job again.…until the next time you’re on this page again, which you’ll need to check every day because despite sorting by date we’re still gonna shuffle jobs you haven’t seen yet inside a dozen pages of jobs you’ve already seen. I assume it drives “engagement” or some bullshit, hooray for monopolies! 😡

    Had to make a fucking uBO rule www.linkedin.com##li:has-text(/show you this job again./)

    • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I wish they’d let me block entire topics, though. I don’t ever want a horoscope but it puts that shit in front of me every single day.

      • QualifiedKitten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Interesting. I mindlessly swipe over to the news feed on my Pixel more than I’d like to admit, and it only gives me horoscope type stuff very rarely… Definitely not frequently enough for me to bother trying to block it. I wonder why you’re seeing so much more of it?

        • st3ph3n@midwest.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’m using the Google news webpage, without fail it shows me horoscopes and sports every day no matter how many times I tell it that I’m not interested.

  • Walican132@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    These seem to go away the next day don’t they?

    My problem is I don’t live where it thinks I do for local news and it won’t let me change it.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Apple News is one of the most poorly managed of all the Apple products. Whomever is in charge of it should be fired.

  • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Apps like Apple News don’t exist to help you curate news that you want to see. They exist to curate news that they want you to see.

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    oh no, linekar is leaving motd? first wrighty, now him?

    i don’t think shearer and micah can pull it off themselves going forward. they’re both good but, let’s face it, neither has the gravitas needed to anchor the show.