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The core Pinterest experience has really been frustrating to me lately, and a lot of it isn't an issue in the Pinterest platform so much as the absolutely horre
by shostack 11y ago
The core Pinterest experience has really been frustrating to me lately, and a lot of it isn't an issue in the Pinterest platform so much as the absolutely horrendous publisher sites that spam Pinterest with images that show up for my searches.
When I visit these sites with their clickbait images (in this case, "california style landscaping"), my iPad 2 slows to a crawl as the publishers load their 50 million ad tags. Often times the image I clicked in hopes of seeing a larger version doesn't exist, and is just a tiny thumbnail on what is clearly a site with content from Demand Media that is meant to drive ad impressions.
I'd LOVE for Pinterest to do something akin to FB's Instant Articles and control the entire experience (which I'm sure publishers would absolutely hate). If they provided monetization options for publishers like FB does, I could see that being very successful for Pinterest, and a huge improvement in the user experience since they wouldn't be punting people to random websites.