If you are not familiar, Google Discover is accessed by swiping left on the main screen of your Android phone. It is a compilation of the most trash and useless piece of "news" that you can possible imagine: "Celebrities" gossip and AD's presented as articles [2].
As you can see of figure [1], the option to disable Google Discover is missing on the update. First screen is my phone (old android version) second screen is my tablet (new android version) with the option gone.
Why do they insist in pushing trash down their users throat?
After looking for 30 minutes on how to disable swipe left to Google Discover, the solution I end up adopting was to buy a new Launcher.
Talk about shitty dark patterns.
1 - https://imgur.com/a/FEfjNrW
2 - https://imgur.com/a/3sCkfGy