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Pressed the button to show the full article and was greeted with a full screen demand to download their stock news app. > Welcome to Seeking Alpha, please comp
by anonymousab 9y ago
Pressed the button to show the full article and was greeted with a full screen demand to download their stock news app.
> Welcome to Seeking Alpha, please complete your setup with our FREE app
Do the metrics really say that these approaches gain more users than they lose?
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoMaybe they had this switched off but just switched it on when they submitted their website to HN?
- brador 9y agoYou can't measure lost users, only installs. 1 > 0 so it's inevitable to show an increased number of installs with popup vs without.
- sgarman 9y agoYou can with A/B testing though?
- PascLeRasc 9y agoThat and breaking the article into 6 pages. If NYT, WaPo, and Medium can fit longform text into one page this site can too.
- DrScump 9y agoI get a popup for "Register for FREE to finish reading this article" when trying to go beyond page 2 (I didn't).