This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more!
A thrilling roundup of the things Google has killed this week.
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I’ll pour one out for Google Podcasts. I eventually settled on it because it was free, cross-platform, and also kept my podcast life separate from my music library or YouTube views. If you’re a multi-ecosystem home and don’t want your podcast stuff with your music, it really was the best option.
And I definitely won’t be going to YouTube Music with them. I don’t even want my music habits commingling with my YouTube habit and getting recommendations that are just music videos for months.
The best thing was that it was free and had no ads.
Try Pocket Casts, Overcast, or AntennaPod. They are also free and have no ads.
Yeah these apps have been around for +10 years doing everything Google podcasts did with more features. It completely invalidated the point of the Google version for a long while. Pocketcasts is probably the oldest 3rd party app I still use today.
Pocket Casts was one of the first apps I ever paid for. When they went to a subscription, that purchase more than paid for itself.
Use Audiobookshelf