Local news is just suffering from this.

Unfortunately, most of the digital publications lag behind. Issues include speed, browser and device compatibility, terrible video players, signup issues (passwords asked for constantly), and all sorts of bugs. Search engines are often so terrible that it is often better to search a website using Google! Same for recommendation engines that, too often, surface irrelevant contents. The most widespread malfunctions involve ad tech. Quite often, ads are just not displayed, or they slow down the rendering of a page. That is another reason to get rid of ads for the subscriber. Above all, anyone who elects to pay 10 or 30 dollars a month for a publication deserves an excellent user experience, which is incompatible with most ad service practices.
Dear Publishers, if you want my subscription dollars (or euros), here is what I expect…
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Frederic Filloux
Nik (Nikki) Usher
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May 29, 2018
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Local news is just suffering from this. And when I say local news, I mean local news chains like Gannett, BH Media, and GateHouse which collectively own most of the mid-size newspapers in the US.
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Written by Nik (Nikki) Usher1.2K Followers
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Associate Prof at the University of San Diego. Studies news, politics, technology, and power with a humanistic social science take.
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