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Top Three Most Irritating Things News Websites Do
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:10 pm
News sites are so focused on making money anyway they can at the expense of their customer readers. I'm happy to see Google searches are now providing info you need like the AP Football Poll. I'm using news sites less and less because they are driving me away with these types of issues.
1) 30 second commercials before videos and if the video freezes up you have to go thru the commercial again. I rarely will view any video that has a 30 second commercial.
2) Want to know the new Top 25 Football Poll? You have to run a slide show to get the rankings. All we want is the list!
3) Misleading titles to an article that tricks you to click on the article, then you find out the article has little to do with the title.
1) 30 second commercials before videos and if the video freezes up you have to go thru the commercial again. I rarely will view any video that has a 30 second commercial.
2) Want to know the new Top 25 Football Poll? You have to run a slide show to get the rankings. All we want is the list!
3) Misleading titles to an article that tricks you to click on the article, then you find out the article has little to do with the title.
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Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:14 pm to TenTex
Ad tactics... all of them. I understand why they're there. But frick them all. Whether it's the "new" popups, video before the video, multi-page news stories to make you click more than once to drive statistics, etc.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:23 pm to TenTex
Video ads that preceed videos when the ad is longer than the video I want to watch.
F that.
F that.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:31 pm to ell_13
I believe these more aggressive tactics are running people off. They should be customer friendly brining in new readers. But there Ad sales want to show high visits at any cost to charge more for Ads.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:32 pm to ell_13
I had to take a survey about salty snacks to read a Nexus 6 article today. My data will be unusable to them though.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 4:46 pm to TenTex
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I'm happy to see Google searches are now providing info you need like the AP Football Poll
Professional quality news costs money to produce and Google stealing that news and giving it to you for free is not a viable long term solution. I do agree that ads on many sites are out of control, some sites are so heavy I can't even click away from them for 10-15 seconds while they load.
But if zero, not even watching ads, is all we're willing to pay for news, we're going to end up getting what we deserve. Now in some cases that can lead to great coverage. What the volunteer blogs do for covering the Pelicans is great, but they don't have the resources to do certain things like send reporters to away games or All Star games. I'm not saying you should be happy with overkill ads, but "free" stolen news shouldn't make you feel warm and fuzzy either. There has to be another way.
This post was edited on 10/20/14 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:18 pm to TigerinATL
I don't consider Google posting some news as stealing. I only recently discovered this while looking to get away from all the ads and slide shows just to see a poll listed. News sites are getting greedy and I'm going to them less and less. They need to be customer driven, not ad revenue driven. The ad dollars will come if they take care of their readers experience.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:24 pm to TenTex
Given the death of print news you can expect this to only get worse.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:47 pm to PuntBamaPunt
Any list that requires clicking through 20 pages.
Those sites should be erased.
Those sites should be erased.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 5:58 pm to TigerinATL
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But if zero, not even watching ads, is all we're willing to pay for news, we're going to end up getting what we deserve.
It has spawned the age of the blogger, which is even worse than your typical journalist.
They parade as journalists then hide behind the blogger label when you call them out.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:11 pm to TenTex
When I read a news site, the "you've reached your limit on views, click here to pay for access" - type shite.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:12 pm to TenTex
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News sites are getting greedy and I'm going to them less and less.
Yep. Obviously for national news, it's not as bad, but hate when reading for local/state news.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:18 pm to TenTex
I wish any video article had a link to the transcript.
Posted on 10/20/14 at 6:19 pm to ell_13
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multi-page news stories
This is the worst IMO.
I just love the top ten lists that cover 11 fkn pages.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 9:29 am to ell_13
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multi-page news stories to make you click more than once to drive statistics
This is the worst. I sometimes wish newspapers would just put a pdf of their print version online, but I know they wouldn't be able to update the story or post it timely in a lot of cases.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 10:35 am to TenTex
The ads don't bother me as much because I get that. But I hate when the click candy title says something like pictures of bigfoot captured in Seattle. I click like an idiot, and there's not even an ad necessarily. It's just some douche bag doing a video like he's on Extra or some shite, and he babbles for like 2 mins about nothing then they show you the picture. Just show me the fricking picture!
Also videos that play automatically and when you mute your sound it some how magically unmutes them. How do they do that?
ETA: Perfect Example
Also videos that play automatically and when you mute your sound it some how magically unmutes them. How do they do that?
ETA: Perfect Example
This post was edited on 10/21/14 at 1:15 pm
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