Quick fix: get rid of Android’s Discover page

Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge Issue

Google's Discover page, which is the leftmost page on many Android phones, can be a useful source of news, or it can be an irritating list of clickbait headlines and repetitive articles. And because it is an intrinsic part of the OS on many phones, unless you actually installed it yourself, you probably can't uninstall it.

You can try to adjust the content by selecting the two dots at the bottom right of each article and letting the algorithm know you're not interested, but that doesn't always work. Or you can simply get rid of it.

Sometimes, you've seen enough rats. You can try to tweak the Discover page algorithm; it doesn't always work. Quick fix

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