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Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.
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How long until they shut down Search? It’s been dog shit for years.
Another day another piece of Google tech tossed in the trash
I use it, I like it and it works with zero issues. It also easily works with my Google Home speaker. So of course it gets shut down. Because obviously. Sigh.
That said, Pocket Casts on iOS is also quite decent.
Same I pivoted to PocketCasts
Odd, I use the same on mobile and max hub and find they only sync on way. If I listen to one on the hub I have to manually remember where I left off.
That’s why I never used it, because I knew it will happen. Better to use some other solution. I wish there was a third party option to google chromecast and all the home devices that works as well.
Pocketcasts is great and supports Chromecast
Thanks, I know.
I just gave up and attached a small form factor PC to my TV.
Steam Deck ftw.
It is my everything. Seriously.
What are you using for control? I wouldn’t mind scrapping my Roku for something a little more robust but using a mouse and keyboard on my home television seems kind of …awful.
I picked up a Logitech K400, it’s working well enough for now. I’m still evaluating the best use cases and access methods for everything but it’s good enough for when I need to just toss a browser up on my screen. Much more convenient than going to my PC in another room to cast a tab; I got tired of getting off the couch just b/c a stream needs to be refreshed.
Thanks for the response
Yeah, I have one of those at work on a central presentation machine. It does ok
Maybe my problem is more getting away from windows and moving to kodi or something. Trying to run a regular desktop GUI from across the room is just an uncomfortable thing.
FWIW I’m dealing with that issue, too. You can size things up and make it work okay but it’s not an amazing experience. I’m also looking at an alternative UI since the vast majority of what I want it for is browser based. I’m exploring some flavors of linux, but I have yet to encounter something that gives me the TV-like interface with PC functionality behind the scenes.
They say it’s crazy YouTube could end. I’m not so sure.
YouTube is too big and dominates too much of certain spaces for streaming. Shutting it down would be stupid. If Google no longer wanted it, it would make WAY more sense to sell. Someone would pay billions for that.
Edit: also, YouTube made $8billion in ad sales last quarter. YouTube ain’t going anywhere right now.
Well, to be more clear, I was trying to say that YouTube could end as a business for Google. I’m not sure if YouTube is doing well right now, financially, and these whole ad management looks like a desperate move.
YouTube has recently been exceeding street expectations and made $8billion in ad sales last quarter alone. Even when revenue took a 2% dip a while back, that business is still a damn cash cow.
Yeah, I still doubt it long-term. It’s become truly annoying to watch YouTube videos without workarounds/Premium these days. Their membership is also more expensive as time goes by. I guess, as long as it is a monopoly, they may keep pushing this. Maybe it’s just me, but feels tired.
Another one in the Google graveyard.
Another service that I didn’t know google even offered until they announced it was dying. There are so many sources that podcast apps can pull from that we don’t need half as many as we have.
I actually really enjoy it. It’s my go to no frills podcast app that isn’t paired with music or other extra stuff
I used podcast addict. It does what I need it to do.
podcast addict is fantastic, I tried a lot of different options before settling on it
It does what you need it to do because it does everything. Podcast Addict is one of the most feature rich apps.
I’ve been using AntennaPod and it is no frills and works flawlessly.
Podcasts are just mp3s (or whatever other audio format like ogg). Authors/pod casters should just host them on their site and be done with it. Why let some other company take a lion share of your ad profit. We need less centralized services and more distributed services. Use lemmy or mastodon to promote them. :)
There is value in aggregate discoverabilty via these sites. They also post to all of them not just one. Podcast advertising is dying across the board.
Room to give a shout out to Podverse, free and open source!
Anyone have a suggestion for a alternative simple light weight podcast app for android?
Edit: I installed antennapod and it’s exactly what I was looking for. Very light weight and even open source. Thank you for all the suggestions.
Pocket casts. Also, you might be able to export your podcast subscriptions from Google Podcasts in opml format.
Pocket casts, fucking amazing!
Podcast Addict
I recently stopped using this. I prefer paying for things so I know they will be taken care of, but their price increases came without any improvements to the service for a while. If you are okay with paying though, it’s pretty good.
AntennaPod is free and has worked well for me so far as a replacement. It isn’t as intuitive with its discovery feature, but it works well enough.
I’ve been using the BeyondPod app. Simple and has a cast feature.
Another +1 for AntenaPod. It’s fantastic.
Podcast addict
I’ve been using BeyondPod for years.
Podkicker
Google seems to be caught in an awful feedback loop. I feel like at this point, most tech savy people are weary to try new Google services for fear of liking them, but eventually getting shutdown. In turn causing those tech savy users to not recommend it to their friends/family that actually might cause it to grow.
Honestly don’t know how they get out it without either losing tons of money on maybe side projects or happening across the one things that’s so good it’s impossible to not use. The latter seems more unlikely by the day
As a Google Fi user, I really should be looking for something else.
Fi hasn’t been competitive in many years anyway. You can get more and faster data for cheaper.
I’ll have to disagree here. Not only is the base plan for Fi cheaper, by a landslide, than any alternative I have, but it’s also flexible. On top of that, they allow me to pay 0$ extra when I travel, on both calls, and data. That alone is a gigantic selling point to me, because it eliminated any need for temporary local sim cards
Honestly depends on location
Where I live, all the towers are Verizon (same signal as Google Fi) and US Cellular, and it’s cheaper than both
Verizon has prioritized traffic so other carriers get faster speeds than Fi over the same network.
Yeah with fewer features and extra bullshit like not being able to tether, no intl coverage, no wifi calling etc. I have yet to find a real replacement for fi.
I learned with Google music never get involved with Google with something you’ll want to use daily. Google music hands down was the absolute best music service I’ve ever used. Google is like a kid with ADHD bouncing around from project to project never to see them through.
I used it from the start, I got in on the beta, and while it was nice, I wouldn’t say “it was the absolute best”. IMO Spotify is just as good, in fact I’d say it’s better. It was nice that you could upload 20,000 of your own songs, but that was back before we had hundreds of gigs available on our phones.
Why do you consider it “the absolute best”?
Years ago, Google shut down services I used and since then, I don’t get involved in anything they put out there on the market. This will include their AI service.
Only thing they are allowed to provide me is email. I’m even using YT and search drastically less.
Yeah I don’t directly use any Google service that I’m not paying for. They either shut it down monetize the hell out of it or change how it works so that I have to change how I do things.
Why even use their email? It’s not encrypted so you’re the only one who can read it. They can read it too, and they do. They scan your email and use it to target ads at you. Bought something? They collect that data and look at the receipt, exactly how much you spent on each item. That’s creepy and weird.
Recommend switching to an encrypted email provider like Skiff, Proton, or Tuta. I’ve used all, but really digging Skiff at the moment.
They aren’t using my emails for anything interesting as far as I can tell. Google ad sense either recommends I buy something that I bought months ago and don’t need another one or recommends me content that I have zero interest in. I get so many ads for Epoch Times and Hillsdale.
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Why use it
Good UI and I don’t care that they’re scraping my email for anything, I don’t even see the ads they want to serve me thanks to my ad lockers
Extra work to move to a new email for literally no gains for me
Ignorance is bliss
Lol, this is why people don’t like the FOSS evangelists, you act like pricks that are better/smarter than other people
I use it because I’m less concerned with email privacy than you and it has a good UX
lol it must be nice being stupid
FOSS and privacy are 2 completely different things. If Gmail software was FOSS his points would still be relevant. Try to dislike people for the right reasons at least.
Yeah, hate me for being kind of abrasive. Like me for being right and having your best interests at heart, not some corporation’s.
Hey, makes no difference to me. There are a lot of reasons to protect yourself and your privacy online. Ads is one. Government snooping is another. Hackers stealing your data is another. Rogue employees snooping on your data is another (countless stories of Facebook employees reading their exes private messages, I’m sure it’s happened at Google too). Being logged into Gmail makes it possible to track you on nearly any website you visit since Google trackers can phone home with your unique identifiers is another!
Good UX is a piss-poor reason to not care for your digital privacy, not just because it’s less important than the nuts and bolts, but because there are providers that offer encryption with good UX. Skiff is on par with Gmail. Proton isn’t far off. They both offer free tiers. Skiff almost offers the same amount of free storage as Gmail. The only difference is you don’t have that gross feeling like someone could stalk you on every website you visit, or read your messages.
Just advising you to use protection, for your benefit. But go ahead, bang the hooker without a condom. It doesn’t impact me in the slightest whether you heed this advice. I say this as someone who was one of the earliest adopters of Gmail. I had a Gmail account before they were publicly available. I don’t use that shit anymore.
There is also Mailfence, very good.
Google has tried like three different podcast apps and they all suck.
I switched to Antennapod already. Nothing to complain about.
