Settings -> News -> Restrict Stories in Today
This will fix it so that only news services you follow will appear.
Cheers - this would work, but first requires whitelisting all the sources you’re happy to see news from, rather than simply not showing you news from sources you’ve blocked.
Just use an RSS feed reader. Apple News is legit trash.
Can’t block YouTube channels on anything but browser…
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./)
At least google news actually stops showing you stories from the publications you remove. This is just bad.
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.
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?
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.
Ikr right? “fewer stories like this” bitch please, how about I get no more of this shit instead???
Disclaimer: I don’t use News+. This is just what I think I remember for on 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.
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.
RSS should become popular again. There are great clients for all platforms, even iOS:
- NetNewsWire (iOS/macOS)
- Read You (Android)
- RSS Guard (Linux/Windows)
I also recommend using the Awesome RSS extension in Firefox/LibreWolf to quickly see if a website has an RSS feed. It also works in Firefox Mobile/Fennec/Mull.
Thanks for the heads-up, giving RSS Guard a try as we speak. Looks fun.
Yes! And I recommend Unread (iOS/macOS + Local/Cloud service)
Is is open source though?
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.
Use an rss feed!
Got any suggestions how to get started on that?
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)
For mobile, I like Feedly.
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
I blocked ESPN news articles just because I don’t want to see sports content. Does the same thing. They need to fix this stupid shit.
On the other hand, I’m willing to pay for aggregated news to gain access to articles from the likes of The Atlantic, etc. Anyone have alternatives to Apple News+ in this regard?
If you wanna put the work into an rss feed, netnewswire is great.
Wow, it’s more useless than blocking someone on Discord.
No idea how Discord’s blocking works since I’ve luckily never needed it. What makes it so useless?
When someone you block types a message, you get a “message blocked” message instead, with a link to show the message. You can’t actually block someone on Discord.
it gives you the ability to see their messages still (i think)
I find this useful, personally, but I would like to see an additional “block and hide.”
Why are you using that crap, then?
I mean, this is specifically mildly infuriating, and there are other positives to it.
Same for news taking up space in the Stocks app.
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Cringe as always.
