Stop linking to 3rd party pages requiring subscription to continue reading...
My long list of complaints is growing...
After having to install an add on to stop videos from auto starting, the new aggravating thing is going to a news item only to discover that a subscription is required to view the article beyond the first teaser paragraph.
If ya can't come up with original content Yahoo please just do without!
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Kalo
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I just end up on another search engine where I can find the story and read it.
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Robert
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If you want to post a link to an article that requires registration or a paid subscription why not put a disclaimer stating something like "This link is to a 3rd party article that requires a paid subscription or registration to view".
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Chip W
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Please, no more links to articles that require a subscription to read. Seriously!!!!
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Doc Adviser
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Yes. Especially Tabloids online. Its frustrating. We just want to read one article.
When subscribed, too many rubbish adverts as pop ups keep coming and disrupt viewing.
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MidiMagic
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The problem is not that I want to deny the author his salary.
The problem is that I want to read only one article from their paper and probably will not be back. I search on topics of national importance, and am often denied access because the paper wants me to subscribe for a month to see it. I do not live in the area, so I do not need a month of their articles on everything in their area, I need the information in the one article.
Most of the information I need is in the form of dates of specific events in the development of the national highway system. This is not provided by the artistry of a journalist.
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yetanothervoice
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Yahoo has never had the journalistic talent to create original content. I mean, remember Matt Bai and all his long winded, yet, entirely predictable articles. Katie Couric proved to be an epic bust; a complete waste of money to hire her. There is always a little person like me that offers the majority of creativity that hack journalists like them rely on...
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MidiMagic
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All of their "original content" is liberal liberal liberal. And now they won't let you comment so Biden will win.
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N H
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Yahoo is clickbait that rehash old articles with new titles.
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Anonymous
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Along with the legitimate articles, there are sponsored stories, ones "from our partners, and blatant clickbait. As I scrolled through the news just now, I saw 4 of these in a row. ENOUGH! I get it, you need to sell some ads so that Yahoo remains free. But this is way over the top; especially when most of the articles are about the Kardashians or other celebrities. Pare down the number of non-stories and let us prevent certain topics. I know the coding ability is there. Well, the coding ability exists, maybe not at Yahoo, but it exists.
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Jessica Banker
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Yes, SO sick of clicking on an article to only have to click on a link, to be told I have met my views and need to pay. Either pay for your own writers or don't post the article.
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K
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Mercury News has a limit on the number of articles you can look at in 30 days without a subscription.
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Alejandro Rodriguez
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STOP USING HEADLINES TO STORIES WHICH REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION IN ORDER TO FINISH THE ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STOP USING HEADLINES TO STORIES WHICH REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION IN ORDER TO FINISH THE ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!
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Alejandro Rodriguez
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STOP USING HEADLINES TO STORIES WHICH REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION IN ORDER TO FINISH THE ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!
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Fred McDaniel
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Your news feed provides headlines and a beginning paragraph of an article from the St. Louis Post Dispatch, but when I click on "read more", the paper will not allow the article to be read unless I have a subscription to the paper. Why do you post headlines to articles that I can't actually read?
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Steven Tewkesbury
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Miami Herald, Dallas Morning News, a couple of Chicago papers...
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Steven Tewkesbury
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It happens repeatedly along with Yahoo changing the homepage when trying to go back to where one started. Try to read an article, you get the request to either disable Ad Block or to subscribe in order to continue. When you then try to return to the home page, that article has disappeared and/or it has an entirely different page from where you started.
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Anonymous
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Mercury News and Business Insider both prompt you for a subscription. Really guys, if you don't know this is happening then you are seriously ignorant of what's going on in YOUR product!
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Concerned
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Um.. search Google for another source, clear your cookies, use a different browser or pay for a higher standard of journalism. There ya go.. see how easy that is? No need for a big dollar sign either. There's this thing called a byline. Perhaps you learned about that in school, not. Bylines tell you who wrote the article and the source. Right at the very top of the article. Jeez... educate yourself please.
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K
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The Miami Herald
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K
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The Washington Post. Request for "remove adblocker" or subscribe comes up on first article