MailOnline: Daily News Updates

I use Daily Mail as one of my news sources on an almost everyday basis. They do a great job of covering world events and all the latest stories. The only negative thing, and it’s becoming a huge pain, is having to sit through advertisements that are longer than the actual clips I am trying to watch. 30 second ad for a 15 second video? Really?? This is increasingly becoming more of an issue. I don’t use a lot of apps, but this is the only one I use that the ads are consistently disproportionate to the actual clips I am trying watch. I don’t even watch the videos when I see a ridiculously long ad at the beginning. Hopefully Daily Mail can figure out a better way of hitting their advertisement goals and also providing news without forcing us all to watch ridiculous amounts of ads.

So, I had never even seen the daily mail prior to downloading the app. I downloaded all the news apps I could find. I wanted to see what had interesting content as well as informative. Daily mail is now my go to news site because they have the political news mixed with the salacious news stories you cannot find anywhere else. All the stories are highly, highly detailed and comprehensive often with videos and always with probably more pictures than you need, although I appreciate them as they help to put you inside the story. This might be my second online review. I wish I didn’t like the daily mail and it was the Wall Street journal I liked better so I sound more sophisticated, but not so... anyway. Just go to the website, check out both the UK and Us sections... oh and us citizens, vote in Nov (regardless of your political leaning go vote).

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I used to love this app, I opened it first thing in the morning and again in the evening when it would update. What is going on with these pop up videos though? They make it impossible to read an article as three will pop up at a time and when you exit out they just pop up again. I mean you CANNOT read anything in here anymore the app seriously doesn’t work. It is so frustrating. They pop up whether you watch the whole thing or click out immediately. It’s become completely unusable. Before all that happened though I loved daily mail. The grammar and actual content is pretty bad, but they break stories before anyone else and have pictures most others can’t seem to get. I barely read the articles, because they’ll post the same one literally verbatim everyday. However if you just skim through the title and bullet points and a few pictures you’ll get the jist of what’s going on. If they could fix whatever is going on with their ads I would give a better rating but this bug is ridiculous.

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While Mail online content is often suspect as they draw from many different sources and rarely fact check they do have a good round up of the news which I then check against more reliable sources. And don’t ever expect the articles to be written with good English. The main reason I’m giving this app a low rating is for the constant advertisements that they throw at you. They are highly annoying. Videos pop up and Banner ads pop up constantly interfering with the reading of the material in the app. While I’ve been able to block the majority of these annoying ads on my home computer I am unable to do so on my iPad and iPhone. Furthermore the app constantly freezes on me. At first I thought it was because my phone is about four years old, but I have a new iPad and the app still freezes on there. I’m constantly deleting and reinstalling it. Just going to give up with it on the smart phone and the iPad and just going to read it on the computer.

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I am in the US and like this paper because it reports news that US media do not. The spelling and grammar are atrocious!! They constantly repeat sentences and even paragraphs. They don’t seem to check their own work or have an editor to do so, either. They hurl insults or write propaganda about people and things they do not like. They are obsessed with telling us how much celebrities (and others) cars, houses, clothing and jewels cost. But, the very worst part is how they stridently suppress reader’s comments. They have a nonsensical list of words or phrases that will keep your comment from being posted. And, they don’t tell you what they are. And, they block many readers from making ANY comments, but do not tell them WHY. All of this is very frustrating, since we actually WANT to read their news page. Time to hire some grown up, trained reporters and a copywriter editor!