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Google suspended a popular Android podcast app because it catalogs COVID-19 content

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Tags: google, android, podcasts, apps, coronaviruses.covid19
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/18/21262504/google-podcast-addict-suspension-android-policy-demonetization

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Ashley Carman
Published
May 18 2020
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459 words

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  1. moocow1452
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    Stay Classy, Big G.

    Guillemane says other podcasting apps, including Google’s own, list these shows, as well, although he doesn’t know what specific offending shows its algorithm flagged.

    Stay Classy, Big G.

    8 votes
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    rmgr
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    One advantage of these stories of Google being a bag of dicks is that it reminds me to check in with the various Pinephone OS projects to see if my Pinephone is useable as a daily driver yet.

    One advantage of these stories of Google being a bag of dicks is that it reminds me to check in with the various Pinephone OS projects to see if my Pinephone is useable as a daily driver yet.

    6 votes
    1. Artemix
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      As a PinePhone replacement, I currently use a SailfishOS (X)-running phone as daily driver (since... two years ago I think?), and I just think it's awesome and keeps improving. You may want to...

      As a PinePhone replacement, I currently use a SailfishOS (X)-running phone as daily driver (since... two years ago I think?), and I just think it's awesome and keeps improving.

      You may want to check it out!

      1 vote