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I'm not surprised they specifically call out boston.com I've been reading that site weekly / daily for a few years now. On Desktop browsers its pretty painless
by mox1 11y ago
I'm not surprised they specifically call out boston.com
I've been reading that site weekly / daily for a few years now. On Desktop browsers its pretty painless (with an ad blocker on), but recently on my ipad the usability of the site has dropped to zero.
It constantly loads an ad that redirects me to the app store, while my browser sits on a blank page. If you hit the back button, boom forward to blank page, context switch to App store.
And the apps it wanted me to download were highly questionable in nature.
I'm amazed that a site of that high of brand recognition would stoop to that level (auto-redirect to crappy app store app). Will be finding a new site for my Boston news after that.
- fsaintjacques 11y agoThis is due to ad arbitrage. Boston.com is not the problem, the ad network behind is. They're just slow to catch it I guess.