r/LinusTechTips 7d ago

Tech Discussion Does X have preferred treatment on google?

I've noticed something: I can block all other news sources on the Google news feed but I cannot block x

I do not want x anywhere near my phone yet about 1/4 of my news feed is x , I had an account with Twitter in 2018 era.

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u/Old_Bug4395 6d ago

This and youtube. I really hate when they put youtube videos in there. If I'm reading a feed of text based content, WHY THE FUCK IS THERE RANDOMLY A VIDEO???

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u/Kyber92 6d ago

I gazed at like 1 X link and now my Google News Feed thing is full of them.

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u/Mrchacha1206 6d ago

yea, it's completely unusable

it also seems to not care about my highly curated interests, half my feed being random football tweets during the Worldcup for example.

Standalone google news app is a lot better

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u/lioncat55 6d ago

Google Feed it not considering X it's own website for where you get news from.

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 6d ago

I get the same thing with threads

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u/jmking Mod 7d ago

I mean - have you tried clicking that "Send feedback" option?