Replacement for Google News?

I use Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal[1] via a searchable archive that I built for that purpose[2].

This gives me an ad-free news aggregation curated by Wikipedia contributors that I can filter any way I want. Of course, there are only about 10-15 events reported per day, and some items found in traditional news sources (op-eds, analysis, "human interest" stories) are missing, but for me that's a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

[2] https://pastevents.org

I like to skim article titles & read the most valuable of the articles in my RSS reader(s) on my phone (with Handy News Reader from f-droid.org, once I got used to all the settings to make it work the way I want, or maybe NewsBlur if you don't mind their freemium model, or other apps), or on a PC; from a variety of sources that can change over time (which can include google news on some different topics, or a variety of other sources with different political leanings or more neutral). It is how I read HN, also.

This gives much flexibility and control vs. going to a single web site. I can even read the comics on Sundays.

Here is another perspective on reading a variety of sources (which, ironically, I found via google news): https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/kevin-olearys-daily-morning-...

And some prior discussion: https://www.google.com/search?hl=eo&gbv=1&q=replacement+for+...

Of course, one has to prioritize use of time and not be unduly distracted by the wide variety of sources that are available. Also deciding carefully whom to trust by identifying humans and observing behavior over time.

Maybe switching to RSS? If you know what sources you want, then you pretty much have ultimate control of what you're reading.

Though I guess if you want things organized by topic across sites that won't work.

Take a look at my service https://sumi.news — you can follow topics, individual RSS feeds, and newsletters. There’s a free version. No ads. Simple interface.

It’s bootstrapped and profitable, been running for a few years, and I keep interface churn to a minimum.

As others said just block unwanted sections through uBlock element picker.

Personally I don't like aggregators, they don't know my preferences, it's just faster to have look at bunch of websites and choose what I wanna read than see small selection of mostly unwanted content in aggregator. I remember GNews should have something like I'm not interested button and no matter how many hundreds times I used it I still kept getting stories on such topic.

Not sure you'll be able to block COVID but I happily use those sites for a minimal/zen news seeking :

http://68k.news (Google news rewritten for old computers. Blue links and everything !) https://currentevents.email (Wikipedia rewritten)

It's hard to answer this question without knowing why you read news.

I like the Associated Press news app (I don't like the app, but I like the news) for general news.

I like the Apple News widgets for specific topics/seeing headlines on specific topics.

Self curated Reddit for international, memorandum.com for US and serializer.io for tech

Couldn't you use something like uBlock Origin to block unwanted sections?

Tried Yahoo News and MSN News lately? They aggregate too last I checked.

Google News RSS feeds