For those of you who get your E-News from Google News, you probably have seen how they rolled out a "new, improved" version. The old version was densely packed with lots of stories, a sidebar, and the first line of each story under the headline:
Good
Now they've "improved" it for Gen Y/Z Web 3.0 with tons of white space, just headlines, and giant fonts:
Gay
Somehow, of all my devices, my phone still had a tab where I could load the old layout, and it was current news. I tried to type in the same link, but it kept redirecting me. I tried to find a workaround, and I found people bitching about it on Google's forums, and this guy had a hack:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/news/blle_PQkZQE;context-place=forum/newsBasically you download a Chrome extension called "User Agent Switcher"
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-g/ffhkkpnppgnfaobgihpdblnhmmbodake?hl=enThis lets you spoof your browser so websites think you're on another OS/Broswer. If you set it to "Windows Phone 8"--you get the old Google News! The only drawback is you have to turn it on and off manually; supposedly he has a way to make it only spoof Google News but I can't get that to work, so while it's on I get a phone optimized version of some other sites. But it's easy to turn on and off.
It probably won't work forever, but it's good for now!
