Google Nieuws

Almost all contant is behind a paywall. It is more a scam to connect with multiple news providers. Better to pick just one payed provider and skip Google News.

Alles zit achter betaalmuur, complete ergernis.
Je kunt beter rechtstreeks een paar nieuwssites bezoeken.

Tijdens het lezen van artikelen blijft de App zich spontaan afsluiten. Opnieuw installeren helpt helaas niet. Jammer !

In tegenstelling tot wat google beweert zijn veel artikel helemaal niet te lezen. Matige functionaliteit van de app ook.

De Google News app had een leuke vervanging van de inmiddels ontbrekende Apple News app/widget kunnen zijn, maar driekwart van de tijd zijn artikelen slecht leesbaar, omdat de zwevende advertenties over de tekst heen zweven. Een gemiste kans, zeg maar.

Please make it possible to add a third region, as an expat wanting to follow multiple regions in multiple languages is not possible. This option would make the feed much more valuable

Op zich begrijp ik het verdienmodel van reclames in apps wel. Alleen wanneer de reclames niet meer op een scherm passen of gewoon zwevend de content bedekken, schiet het zijn doel voorbij. Tweede minpunt: vaak clickbait naar betaalde content.

Apple News had decent headlines and nice push notifications. It redirected to Safari, which has several ad blockers at my phone. It suddenly stopped working in my country.
I thought: “Google News can’t be that bad, right?”
It was. Let me count the ways:
Google news has 3 viewing modes: gruesome, bad and lousy.
The first one is the native viewer which is 70% ads by screen surface. Sometimes these ads even float before your content, which I had not seen in 10 years. This the gruesome option, and by default you start here.
“Open in browser” does nothing of the sort and now navigation is broken. You can’t get back to any list or other story but you are still be flooded with ads: the bad option. From here you can press the tiny Safari symbol to:
Read the story in Safari, which works great but now you have completely left Google news, which is lousy.
Some more bad stuff:
- no way to copy the headline to read it outside the app
- links to paywalled content
- screen gets funky when clicking paywalled links: the moving barrier covers the back button so you have to restart the app
- no way to rank anything or to block certain sports, say
- completely obscure navigation: the back button is an “X” and can appear on top or on the bottom of the page
- sometimes headlines “fold out” with only vaguely related headlines, unclear why
- no memory of cookies: very hard to login to newspaper sites even if you have a subscription in gruesome an bad mode
- if it works, it has forgotten everything when you open the app again
- in lousy mode, Safari is tricked that you don’t have a subscription even if you are currently logged in, which requires reloading other tabs for the same paper
and I thought Apple News was bad.

Veel nieuws berichten worden doorgeleid naar betaalde nieuws sites waardoor je niet veel vrij kunt lezen. Dus eigenlijk zijn de nieuws headlines verkapte reclame links.

Swipe function to go to next article or back to home feed is not working. I have to use the X to close the article.

Backswipe werkt niet meer heel irritant moet nu op kruisje drukken om terug te gaan en artikel af te sluiten

Altijd wel interessante nieuws,en ook goed op de hoogte. Nadat je hebt ingevuld wat je graag meer of wat je interessant hebt opgegeven. TOP.

Most news articles lure you to a paid site. To read further, you have to pay or register so that you can read a few free 'premium' articles. Google should give you the option to disable this or clearly indicate in advance that you have to pay to read further with such articles.

I use this app everyday. Here’s what I’m missing; a simplified or reading function option when I open an article, specially when they’re just ridden with ads. Also in that note, integration with Pocket app would be great!

Veel links naar abonnee only berichten, en verder eigenlijk alleen een verzameling links met al het nieuws wat je ook bij Nu, RTL of de NOS kan lezen. Voecht voor mij niks toe.

I hate football, so i kill every article about this silly game. Nevertheless, Google keeps dumping articles about this nonsensical “sport” in my feed. There is absolutely no intelligence in this app whatsoever.

Thank you for the app. I find it useful, but after a few minutes of scrolling the app or clicking the share button, the UI freezes and the app needs to be closed and reopened to overcome this. I run into this same issue since months already, and I am using an iPhone 12 Pro always updated to the latest version. It just seems like it will never get fixed and eventually I will chose a better news app that doesn’t do this. No other app in my phone behaves like this.

But that’s because you are probably A/B-testing it.
If I can’t give a thumbs up or down this is useless to me.