They are now saying you can only read 5 articles a week then it's a £1 a month, times must be hard albeit sits only a £1.
The website is horrendous, you start to read a story then you are suffocated by Citroen adverts for 3 minutes :(
Quote from: seaton on July 21, 2020, 07: AM
They are now saying you can only read 5 articles a week then it's a £1 a month, times must be hard albeit sits only a £1.
be lucky if you can find 5 worth reading ;D ;D
Quote from: The Great Dictator on July 21, 2020, 09: AM
The website is horrendous, you start to read a story then you are suffocated by Citroen adverts for 3 minutes :(
Which then freeze the page ...
It is the way nearly all newspapers are going. The Mail used to make you 'register' a while back but they dropped it when their print circulation tanked they are just re-introducing it. Given most of their stories are one or two paragraphs saying 'Reports are coming in that this has happened' accompanied by Google Street views of the general location and a suggestion you keep reading the paper as the story will be updated as more facts are revealed (which rarely ever happens) you will not be missing much. I guess they are on a track that 'Leeds' nowhere for them!
If the Mail was a hospital patient the family would have been called to the bedside, the nurse saying...... "he's talking, but it makes no sense".
What was unmissable is now unreadable. If you cut back a local institution to the barest of bones with no meaningful local presence, you fall apart. I'm surprised it's hung on so long.
What happened to the Hartlepool Post.....?
Circumventing the limit is extremely easy. There are a number of ways around it.
I for one will not be giving JP a single penny of my hard-earned dosh.
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on July 21, 2020, 03: PM
If the Mail was a hospital patient the family would have been called to the bedside, the nurse saying...... "he's talking, but it makes no sense".
What was unmissable is now unreadable. If you cut back a local institution to the barest of bones with no meaningful local presence, you fall apart. I'm surprised it's hung on so long.
Follow the money. Its the adverts that make the cash. Hartlepool Council adverts as well. You can see the effect of this dependence on the Council by the way the paper is very careful not to insult whichever ego happens to be in charge. The other local weekly free
rag paper is in direct competition for the Council money and its getting very crowded (tongue-wise) around the council's bottom as both papers are vying to see who can be the more obsequious. I suppose its all to the advantage on local social meeja who can continue to bombard us with ever crazier conspiracy-theories and Russian and Chinese disinformation. The current bun-fight over masks shows the stupidity a significant proportion of the dingbat '
mainstream-media' hating population. When you live and die by the number of daily 'engagements' then I guess it is in your interests to keep the loonies on your site and posting.
Quote from: mk1 on July 21, 2020, 05: PM
then I guess it is in your interests to keep the loonies on your site and posting.
Do I detect an attempt at a p**s take of The Hartlepool Post?
Tut tut....
Quote from: akarjl2 on July 21, 2020, 07: PM
Do I detect an attempt at a p**s take of The Hartlepool Post?
Tut tut....
They are
all the same. Its included but not limited to.
Stop press: Twitter acts against QAnon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53495316
better late than never.
If you think this does not matter then you should view this clip where Trumps first National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, (since jailed and 'pardoned') with a bunch of Trump loonies, repeats his oath of Office and at the end signs off with the QAnon slogan 'Where we go one we go all'.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/politics/michael-flynn-qanon-video/index.html
That is how bat-sh*it crazy the world has become. Let us hope Facebook bans these crazy people as well. Sure will cut down 'daily engagements' though!
Quote from: mk1 on July 21, 2020, 07: PM
Quote from: akarjl2 on July 21, 2020, 07: PM
Do I detect an attempt at a p**s take of The Hartlepool Post?
Tut tut....
They are all the same. Its included but not limited to.
You?
Quote from: mk1 on July 22, 2020, 05: AM
Stop press: Twitter acts against QAnon
Define "batshit crazy"? ...do away with the police...close prisons.....Standby for banning of "a.other" ...don't hold your breath.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53480226
Misleading and harmful online content about Covid-19 has spread "virulently" because the UK still lacks a law to regulate social media, an influential group of MPs has said.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee urged the government to publish a draft copy of promised legislation by the autumn.
It follows suggestions the Online Harms Bill might not be in force until 2024.
The group's chairman said tech firms could not be left to self-regulate.
"We still haven't seen correct legislative architecture put in place, and we are still relying on social media companies' consciences," said Julian Knight.
"This just is not good enough. Our legislation is not in any way fit for purpose, and we're still waiting. What I've seen so far has just been quite a lot of delay."
Google and Facebook have said they have invested in measures to tackle posts that breach their guidelines.