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I have a love/hate relationship with Google Discover, though it used to lean more towards the former. I’ve learned to curate my Discover feed by meticulously removing posts, sources, and content I don’t want to see, and it’s been effective for a while. However, everything seemed to change overnight a few months ago.
Now, it seems that regardless of how often I tell Discover I’m “Not interested in a topic” or “See less content like this,” the more irrelevant content I encounter. I’m not alone, either. Numerous threads across various subreddits (1, 2, 3) suggest that others have noticed a big drop in content quality of late.
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Perhaps the most telling example of Discover’s downward trend is the increased spotlight on social media posts from platforms like X and TikTok. Even more annoying are the autoplaying YouTube advertisements from local political parties wedged in between.
Discover's usefulness as a news curation tool is diminishing with each passing day.
I’ll admit that some posts are genuinely useful, but I don’t necessarily want to get my news from X. I’d appreciate the option to completely ban content from the site, as I can for every other source on Discover. However, I can only tell Discover to avoid content from particular accounts, not X as a whole.
To call Discover entirely useless would be incorrect, but it now feels more than ever like a tool that Google uses to push what it wants me to see rather than one I can use to read what I choose.
What do you think of Google Discover in 2026? Have your recommendations and suggestions remained in line with what you want to see? Let us know in the comments section below.
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