Rule of Google: if it works, kill it.

I know, I know, using Google apps isn’t the best, but this was a perfectly good Podcast app with all the features you might want.

Apparently they’re moving everything over to YouTube Music, where a lot of the features of Google Podcasts aren’t implemented yet.

I’ve moved over to an app from F-Droid.

  • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
    181·
    6 months ago

    I don’t have YouTube Pro or whatever its called now and when I listen to music on my Google home it plays an ad after ever song. Since I have switched to Pihole and blocked googles DNS servers the only ads I get are to buy premium YouTube which I assume are hardcoded into something somewhere.

    We better be careful, with Googles track record they will be getting rid of YouTube soon and rolling it into whatever they are calling their Skype clone nowadays.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      We better be careful, with Googles track record they will be getting rid of YouTube soon and rolling it into whatever they are calling their Skype clone nowadays.

      I think that five products are reasonably safe from Google’s euthanasia project:

      • YouTube
      • Google Search
      • Chrome
      • “core” Android system + Play Store (it counts as one)
      • AdSense

      The common factor between them is advertisement: vulturing on your personal info (Chrome, GS, Android), serving you ads (YT, GS), ensuring that advertisers must pay the vassal tax to advertise (AdSense), and walling you in ways that you can’t fight back (Chrome, Android+Play Store).

      Google stopped being a technology business a long time ago; pragmatically nowadays it’s simply an advertisement company that dabbles on tech.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Google stopped being a technology business a long time ago; pragmatically nowadays it’s simply an advertisement company that dabbles on tech

        They’ve primarily been an ad company ever since they acquired DoubleClick in 2008.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          Good catch on GMail - it’s at the same time a vector to invade your privacy and an additional barrier for people leaving the Google ecosystem battery farm.

          I’m not sure on GSuite.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            GSuite is well used in corporate settings as a cheaper alternative to O365 enterprise.