Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will

Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by dhd415 on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:40PM (#15743055)

FWIW, you can disable Google Now on your phone. On the more recent versions of Android, you long-press an empty spot on your home screen, select "Settings", and then locate and disable the "Your feed" item.

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by jacobra2 on Monday November 20, 2017 @04:49PM (#15743624)

Amazing. Disabled. Didn't know that, thank you!

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by TimJRobinson on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:47AM (#15749202)

This doesn't seem to work any more :( I'm trying to keep notifications of my calendar and flights but disable all the distractions like "Stories to read", and apparently Google has removed the ability to disable it... (https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/140288/how-do-i-...)

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by dhd415 on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:59AM (#15749319)

It would certainly be nice to disable just that one section. I took the GGP's comment to be about disabling the entire Google Now/Feed app.

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by djsavvy on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:51PM (#15744688)

If only that actually did anything on my phone.

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by pvdebbe on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @03:16AM (#15746513)

Moto G5, Android 7.0, the long press on home screen -> settings has no other settings but one. But I did locate the settings by going through Google Now's settings. Thanks for pointing this out!

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Re:Modern Media Is a DoS Attack on Free Will by chli on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:21AM (#15756216)

Hi I accessed it using the following method on my Galaxy S7.

Applications Drawer\Google -> Hamburger Menu\Settings -> Your Feed

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