After reading news.google.com as I try to do once a day I was totally annoyed by the “Gargling Sugar Water Gives You Superhuman Strength Of Will.” I really should have been tipped off by the basic lack of literacy in the use of capitals in the title, and I promise to never ever click on a link where I notice thegloss.com in the URL. But as I came to realize, a chunk of the content on news.google.com is not just plain crap, it’s extraordinarily low grade crap. I’m going to skip this site until mid-December and see if I can still get my news fix every day.
[Fast forward to November, 2016: Could not look at news, listen to radio, look at TV for a week after the election. Then subscribed to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and began donating regularly to The Guardian (UK) newspaper. I now (2019) very occasionally visit news.google.com to see what the current button-pushing headlines are, but stick to the three newspapers and vetted blog sites and podcasts with occasional visits to their conservative counterparts while also chatting with an ultra-conservative soulmate (high school best friend) to peer outside my silo. But the indiscriminate blend of editorializing and news in my three main newspapers is grinding me down!]
[Fast forward to January 24, 2022: I’ve been degooglifying myself for the past many months. Signal replaced Hangouts. Staying as far away from other tools as possible. Phone has the least Googlified Android I could find in a mainstream phone (LG Wing). But hypocrisy with respect to YouTube until I can get permission to point to a local copy of a song. Needless to say I haven’t looked at news.google.com in a L O N G T I M E.]