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.

  • niisythEnglish
    803·
    8 months ago

    How else are they gonna half ass implement that into youtube and make that shit bloated af.

    It has long form content, Tiktok clone, Main music delivery system, Twitch clone, And now, Podcasts.

    👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      341·
      8 months ago

      Going to be called YouTube Podcasts. Soon to be spun off into Google Wallet + Podcasts, then to be renamed Podcasts Pay, then Pay Podcasts, then Google Chrome with Podcasts.

    • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
      181·
      8 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
        10·
        8 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
          5·
          8 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·
            8 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.

            • dubyakayEnglish
              3·
              8 months ago

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

    • wise_pancakeEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      It seems like their trying to roll everything into the over media app and subscription

      Kind of makes sense, all their other apps are pretty fragmented and crappy.

    • Trae@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      It also has games now.

      I don’t think it’s rolled out to a lot of people. No one at work can see them except me, but my Google app has games that I can bring up.