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wednesday21 Apr 2021

Google Discover Is Now So Bad, It Shows Stories On Topics Users Had Hidden

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Ever since the start of March 2021 – and even earlier for some users – the Google Discover Feed has gone rogue. One issue noticed by some users is that the content delivery on the personalised Google feed has gotten so bad in some cases that it is simply ignoring any rules to “hide” certain topics even when it is set by the user.

In this case despite having hidden sport as a topic – including some teams specifically – and hidden sport updates, the Discover Feed on these devices remains littered with stories about…erm…well…sport. These include everything from match reports to live blog updates (19 hours after the event, but anyway), including from non-mainstream sources.

This is not exclusive to sport either. On the same profile, we had previously documented how Lottery results would keep appearing – again including from random sources all over the world – despite this being marked as a hidden topic.

Check out the post for the full breakdown.

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