I have a Samsung device running on Android 11. Swiping right on the home screen showing me some Google news propaganda. It is truly awful. It is just a bunch of hair-brained clickbait and lies. I managed to disable it in settings. Now, how can I prevent the swipe-right screen, or how can I replace it with a better app?

As of a few days ago, if I scroll left in my home screen to Google Discover nothing happens, it just remain in my home screen. Note if I click an empty spot, choose settings, and change from Google Discover to Samsung Free, then I can swipe to Samsung Free. Neither restarting nor deleting both the data and cache of the Google app helped. Eventually, updating to the latest security version solved it.
But if it happens again, what could fix it?

I'm using the Google News feed (swipe left from home) a lot. However, I want to open the respective links using Firefox instead of Chrome (mostly because I can disable autoplay on Firefox, but not on Chrome I think). I tried looking through the options as well as the internet, but I haven't found a way to open these news items in a "custom" browser. Is it possible?

I'm on a OnePlus 9 Pro using Android 11 and version 12.47.14.23 of the Google App. I really enjoyed the Google Discover tab and would use it many times a day on the phone. A few days ago, it simply stopped working. When I swipe over to the screen now, I get the following error: I've hit the "Try again" button, as well as swiping down from the top to reload. Same error. I've also checked the app settings to see if something got flipped somehow. Here's the general settings: Here's what I know so far: * This happened the second I traveled from Seattle to Texas, and took my phone off airplane mode. Right when I went to the Discover page, I got this error. This was 3 days ago. I have no idea if this error is location based or just a random coincidence. I guess I'll find out when I get back to Seattle on Friday. * I've tried things like clearing the app cache from the Google app, and removing all Google App updates and re-installing them in the Play store. No go. * If I log off and choose the "Use without an account" option, the feed loads. However, then I would get random links in which 99% of them I couldn't care less about. The links associated with my Google account were generally very useful, except when it would spoil who won on The Great British Baking Show even though the finale hadn't even aired in the US yet. * If I use without an account, then log on as myself again, I'd get the same error. * I'm using a paid, Google Suite (I think it's called Google Workspace now?) account with a custom domain name. I do not have have an @gmail.com address of any sort. I'm actually leaning towards this as a primary suspect, even though I haven't changed any settings. Google has made it clear many times in the past that paying users are second class citizens, as many products don't work, and you can't do things like "Rate an app" in the app store even though every app always pops up asking for ratings. I dug through the enabled apps in the admin console and didn't see anything about Google Discover or Google Now. The only apps that were disabled didn't appear to be related. Maybe there's some weird setting buried in there somewhere though. It's also possible Google just decided to disable Discover for paid accounts, which wouldn't surprise me in the least. I'd expect this to have been announced or documented somewhere, which I wasn't able to find. I'd love any ideas on things to try! I've read just about every link and blog post I could find online, but they're generally fairly useless. It's also been suggested you can get the same feature from the "New Tab" page in Chrome. This is true, but it only shows a few things at a time. I'd love to be able to get the phone working like it did a few days ago. **Update:** I talked with a Google Workspace support rep and he has confirmed this should work, and all admin settings in my account are correct. Beyond that, he wasn't able to tell me why this isn't working. Since this is not a Google Workspace issue, he wasn't able to escalate any further.

I have an Android phone and get some news based on my "channels & interests" when I swipe from the main Home Screen to the left. How can I add a new topic to these "channels & interests"? I found this site which does not really help. In *Step 2: Choose what updates you get* it does not explain how to **add** a new topic. I only can view some list I can choose from. Is there any way to really implicitly, directly and clearly add a new topic to that list?

I'm using the Google Launcher on my Huawei P9. Recently it's been updated so there is a Google feed of some sort when I swipe right from the home screen. I've been through my settings and turned off as much as possible, but I still see weather and news. The weather doesn't bother me, but I consider it my right to choose if I'm being force-fed politically biased news or violent stories. I could go back to the Huawei launcher, but my plans are to move to a Google phone in the future anyway. Not being able to turn off news would obviously mean I couldn't choose a Google phone for my future phone. How to turn this off?

My Google cards are acting weird. 40% of the cards are in other languages which I have no clue of. It's sometimes Urdu, sometimes Russian, and sometimes god knows which one.  I have tried hitting "not interested" on several of these, but it keeps coming up in my feed. I'm pretty much sure that I have not changed any language and settings on my phone. I haven't had any recent app installs too. Anybody help me with this?