Good News

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Blocks unwanted news stories from appearing in your Google News feed.

Latest reviews

• (2023-10-22) Jeff Green: When I added terms to it that I didn't want to see, it worked. However, I recently noticed that many of these terms were showing up. I didn't understand why, and I didn't check this extension to see what the problem was. Today, I saw a new item that I wasn't interested in, so I went to add it to this extension, and I noticed that ALL of my previous entries had been wiped clean. I don't know what happened, but probably two years or so worth of entries were simply gone. That's not acceptable. If that's a flaw in this extension, it means that this is an extension that doesn't belong in the Play Store. To sum up, when it was working, it was working just fine, but when I discovered that all my entries had vanished, that made this a really problematic extension. Edit: It happened a second time. I added terms back into the database, and w/in a few weeks, they'd disappeared. I'm uninstalling this addon, b/c I don't trust it not to harm my browser.
• (2023-08-04) Risa Pesavento: Amazing
• (2023-06-13) Jon: Sanity restored.
• (2023-03-24) Kris: Thank you very much! Works great. Now how can I get this on my phone?!
• (2022-10-05) Michael Lark: Not bad, but it doesn't seem to work for all words or phrases. For example, I downloaded this because for some reason Google thinks I am interested in a particular celebrity divorce. So I added the names of the celebrities, in several different configurations, and I am still getting those stupid articles. I wish it worked better.
• (2022-05-24) Kurt Reno: Brilliant! Google News "show me fewer" does nothing, but this extension rid me of every Kardashian story like magic! THANK YOU!
• (2022-05-09) Arkan Salih: Please update. Whenever I open a topic I have to refresh. Also Google news has changed design. Now it shows small cards of "full coverage" under the main story, and when the extension finds a blocked word, it hides the entire coverage, not only that story. Let's say the story is about a far right candidate and an article contains "Trump like candidate", so this extension shows the entire coverage on Google news just because of one article's wording. I understand the extension should technically hide that source, but not other sources that don't contain Trump. Thanks.
• (2022-04-18) Nikki Y: Do not bother. There is no place to add the things you want blocked. They must have removed it. Not sure how this could work without that.
• (2022-04-02) Roberto Rosario: Thanks for providing such an essential service! I don't need to hear about all the murders and killings in the world every day!
• (2021-11-16) Darik Horn: A way to easily block sportsball and COVID-19 stories in Google News. Official propaganda topics can't be blocked in the Google News user interface. Good News is a very excellent extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
• (2021-10-09) Blake Piercy: Thank You!!! I can now block entertainment and sports. The only addition I would make is an ability to block more general terms. For instance give it the term "baseball" and it automatically blocks all sites with anything baseball related. For now blocking individual websites is actually a bit entertaining, imagine the smile I got when I added "Burnt Orange Nation" to the list. That glee will wear off and it'll get tiresome to block each one, of which there seems to be an infinite number. Thanks for the effort and the work you put into this, it's certainly appreciated.
• (2020-12-09) PerpetualOmega: It does remove selected stories with blocked words, however, Google news only gave a few stories per category on the front page and these removed stories do no get replaced. so essentially you end up with a blank page if you block Covid, Brexit & Trump.
• (2020-11-17) Mike Brown: This extension is way too aggressive; it hides the entire card (group of headlines for a topic) when it matches a keyword in the card. Even the example images show entire sections have disappeared, like the whole Fact Check panel.
• (2020-10-29) Lady Columbia: I'm so glad I found this, I really didn't want to see Entertainment stories in my news feed. Thank you again
• (2020-10-28) Timothy Edgin: I would argue this is the single most important plug in available for Google News. I was getting spammed with Kardashian and Bieber BS so much I subsdcribed to the Epoch Times to get away from it all. With this plug in I can at least weed out some BS. I hate that Google took away the ability to remove unwanted news sources or articles. I do not need to see Sports or Entertainment- I do not get off watching men in tights hug each other for a ball and I care less than 0% what Hollywood celebs have to say. In fact I pretty much go against Hollywood by default. So until Google allows humans control their news feeds this plug will have to Suffice.
• (2020-09-12) DAVE C: finally something that really works to clear out unwanted news topics. in fact, you can watch the articles disappear in front of your eyes as you input that specific key word. not having any interest in SPORTS, I entered sports as a key word and they whole SPORTS category under Google News is gone! Extension still allows you too see what articles have been hidden if you want - it's tempting!
• (2020-03-15) Federico Matias: if you could make the same with youtube please
• (2020-02-01) Robin Brown: After filtering a few terms the articles disappear but clicking on any links below saved searches gives me a blank page. I will hang in to see if this gets fixed I would love reading the news without feeling sick.
• (2020-01-30) Sai Y: was working well for a few months....now when i open google news the entire page in empty.
• (2020-01-20) Steve Vance: When it works, it's awesome. However, it breaks quite a bit and the developer seems to have vanished. Keeping the Kardashians away was fun while it lasted though.
• (2019-10-22) Uncle Mart: Since Google News removed the option to remove categories and stuff like that it's become horrible. I was about to give up on google news after seeing many others sharing the same frustrations (and also giving feedback that just gets ignored). This extension is what google news SHOULD have built in. Now I no longer have to scroll past stories about sport or the kardashians. The "see fewer stories like this" has never ever even come close to working, I don't think it actually does anything at all to be honest. THANK YOU FOR THIS EXTENSION! Where google has failed, you have won!
• (2019-09-02) Zak Oz: NO MORE Infotainment and Newsvertising. Goodbye Kardashian Kanye Swift iPhone Markle Jenner iPad
• (2019-08-28) Essero Eson: I have been trying for years to get the team at Google to stop shoving sports news in my face as I don't like sports, don't follow sports and will never read a sports story. The pleading fell on deaf ears (Or blind eyes). This extension removed the entire sports section just by entering the world 'sports' into the keyword section. I wish I found this years ago. Thank You.
• (2019-08-23) Japan Air Carrier: Says what it does and does what it says :) Love it! Nice, clean context menus, too.
• (2019-08-21) Barb: This app allows you to do what Google is unable or unwilling to do: actually "see fewer" of the stories you don't care about.
• (2019-08-18) Cameron Cole: You are my hero. So tired of the social media BS news stories and Googles inability to efficiently block them from my feed.
• (2019-07-08) Sameer Tangri: Love it. It is easy to use and does the job very well. Just enter the keyword you want to omit and click add. Thereafter, any news headline which contains that word will no longer show.
• (2019-06-28) Roxanne Smith: I wish I had Good News for real life.
• (2019-06-25) Abhishek Joshi: Thank you so much for this extension.
• (2019-06-03) Anthony P: Sanity restored. Thank you dev! THANK YOU!
• (2019-05-07) Sai Pranav Arigala: Tried 3 extensions, this is the only one that works.
• (2019-02-05) I used to love and rely on this extension, but it's recently stopped working. None of the keywords I have in my list are being blocked. This extension used to work flawlessly. Previous review: Finally!!!! Just what I've been waiting for! I <3 this extension...THANK YOU!!!!!
• (2019-01-31) Ben Haley: This has been great for blocking nonsense, BUT recently it's been behaving differently. In Google News, it blocks news stories that contain the blacklisted words, but the slot where the headline would be is still there - it's blank, and the image is still displayed. Weird! If this gets fixed I'll add a star.
• (2019-01-29) Ken Rose: Worked VERY well until yesterday. Now the article text is removed but the images remain.
• (2019-01-21) Edwin Figueroa: Thank goodness for this extension! Will Cloud Sync be supported in a later release? It's the one thing I really would like from this extension. Thanks again!
• (2019-01-02) Ibrahim Yucel: Excellent. Very clean and non-disruptive interface that does exactly what it advertises. I highly recommend
• (2018-12-15) I would give it 5 stars if I could turn off the lower right popup notification that it is filtering per my desires. Duh, I know that and do not need to be reminded every visit! Otherwise, great extension.
• (2018-11-29) Glenn Harrop: No more Fortnite content for me! Seriously, I've been choosing to see fewer Fortnite stories for months and Google isn't listening. I'm very happy to have found this extension to filter out the trash.
• (2018-08-13) Casi King: So far so good. I'm seeing way less Kardashian stuff. Now if we could only eliminate them from the news cycle altogether.
• (2018-08-08) Bruce Rouffian: I was becoming uncharacteristically angry with Google News due to its tendency to push rubbish sources (Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The sun, etc.) Now this app has removed all mention of sports, the Express, Love Island and I am thinking Boris Johnson next. Brilliant app. I highly recommend it.
• (2018-07-16) Michael Duffy: god send, why this cant be in news to begin with is ridiculous. thank you
• (2018-07-06) monsieur boeuf de tête: really works the treat. i added a filter for "sports" and the entire category disappeared - adding "bieber" next! great job... thanks!
• (2018-06-14) Lindsey Myers: Worked really well until the latest Chrome update. Now it only partially blocks. Pretty much useless now.
• (2018-06-03) Richard Boehm: Goodbye Kardashians!
• (2018-06-02) Sarathganesh Selva: Thank you so much!@@#@# Please continue to support if for the benefit of human kind.....Why would Google not implement this, Cursed politics I guess!