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Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by digging »

slipperlobster wrote: post #42
tkiolp4 wrote: post #38

Google as a brand is something I don’t trust anymore. - cloud? You’re far better at aws than gcp - email? Got my life-long gmail account blocked for no reason. I’m using icloud+ and custom domain now. I have a dummy gmail account just in case - drive? I don’t trust my gmail account so, I cannot trust drive either - search? Guilty. I’m still using it, but less and less - youtube? Annoying af with ads. I don’t bother w…

Just wanna throw my hat in for an unsolicited Kagi recommendation. I switched almost a year ago, and it's been great.

I'll second this, I can hardly recommend any subscription more than Kagi.

Despite the numbers, I'm always surprised when someone still uses G search... it's drowned in ads and exploitative results. Kagi lets you modify the weights of individual sites or even block them, so you can filter out blogspam and clickbait sites instantly. Best of all, it even has a leaderboard for most-blocked and most-promoted domains so you can literally just go down the list of some of the worst sites and block them before you ever see them in a search result.

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by gentleman11 »

slipperlobster wrote: post #42
tkiolp4 wrote: post #38

Google as a brand is something I don’t trust anymore. - cloud? You’re far better at aws than gcp - email? Got my life-long gmail account blocked for no reason. I’m using icloud+ and custom domain now. I have a dummy gmail account just in case - drive? I don’t trust my gmail account so, I cannot trust drive either - search? Guilty. I’m still using it, but less and less - youtube? Annoying af with ads. I don’t bother w…

Just wanna throw my hat in for an unsolicited Kagi recommendation. I switched almost a year ago, and it's been great.

kagi is great. It's overpriced, but if you are willing to pay the premium for unlmimited searches (you run out really quickly or aviod doing searches otherwise with the normal plan), it's really good

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by verdverm »

rickdeckard wrote: post #46
verdverm wrote: post #8

This is a product consolidation more than a discontinuation

Depends on whether YT Music is considered a place for products to continue living or a place for products to put to rest. So far it seems to be where Google Media apps migrate their users to when they decide to retire a media service. ANY kind of media service...

Yea, that's what consolidation means

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by pushfoo »

slipperlobster wrote: post #42
tkiolp4 wrote: post #38

Google as a brand is something I don’t trust anymore. - cloud? You’re far better at aws than gcp - email? Got my life-long gmail account blocked for no reason. I’m using icloud+ and custom domain now. I have a dummy gmail account just in case - drive? I don’t trust my gmail account so, I cannot trust drive either - search? Guilty. I’m still using it, but less and less - youtube? Annoying af with ads. I don’t bother w…

Just wanna throw my hat in for an unsolicited Kagi recommendation. I switched almost a year ago, and it's been great.

I can second this. Although my queries per month are limited due to using free tier, they almost always get relevant results for technical questions. If Google keeps getting worse, I'll switch to Kagi's paid tier. The LLM demo they briefly made available a few months ago was also impressive.

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by oaththrowaway »

notRobot wrote: post #11

Open source alternative on Android: Antennapod: https://antennapod.org/ https://antennapod.org/download/ Available on Google Play and F-Droid. I switched to it many years ago anticipating this exact Google product shutdown, and I've been very happy with it :)

AntennaPod is what I use as well, but it does really kill my battery for whatever reason.

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by digging »

taeric wrote: post #32
Cwizard wrote: post #16

Can anyone explain why? I see almost no downside in keeping it running? Infra costs must be minor, there is no licensing costs, it’s a simple app so I would assume very little developer cost. The upside is that Android can come with a ‘native’ podcast player. Just like iOS comes with a native player. A big downside with shutting it down is that it reinforces the idea that Google products are eventually killed so don’…

Google being a giant monorepo is almost certainly at play here. Maintenance costs are always high on products. But upgrades and constant progress on underlying technology is, itself, often a large part of the need for maintenance. Please don't take this as an argument against monorepo. It is a discussion point there, but even if you view this as largely negative, I assert a lot of these negatives come with the size o…

I'm not against monorepos but this seems like such an obvious case of one being inappropriate. I'm very curious why it's important to G to maintain their products in a colossal monorepo. Obviously they have very smart people working on these issues, but they're also not infallible.

Re: Google podcasts is shutting down

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Post by frereubu »

jtbayly wrote: post #43
verdverm wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ads in podcasts is why I left Spotify. Doesn't really seem like premium when the main content I want from them still has ads

I also left Spotify because of podcasts. I did not want to listen to podcasts, and they couldn't get that through their heads, shoving it down my throat, advertising it to me, even though I paid for an ad-free experience. Drove me crazy, so I left.

What did you switch to? I tried Tidal, loved the noticeably higher-quality audio, but there were two dealbreakers for me - no crossfade playback (for running) and no downloads to the desktop app (for travelling). I could just about have dealt with no downloads on the desktop app, but they actually removed the crossfade playback a while ago because, according to an official reply on their support forums "it didn't add to the customer experience", which to me seems like such a blatant lie to cover for something else like they found it difficult to do for some technical reason.
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