Yahoo News: Your Guide to News
Get breaking news alerts, and in-depth coverage tailored to your interests.
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4.00
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Customizable news feed to show areas of interest
- Content of the articles is generally good
- Fast loading times
Cons
- Heavy advertising cluttering the reading experience
- Not all articles load properly or display correctly
- Bias in reporting and editorialized headlines
- Frustrating navigation and layout issues
- Push notifications often link to missing or non-existent stories
Most mentioned
- Bias in reporting
- Issues with advertisements
- Layout and navigation problems
- Problems loading articles
- Frustration with app updates and features
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1.80
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-21 |  | | New layout is trash. Hate the horizontal scrolling, very finicky, either scrolls too fast or too slow, not natural at all. The previous layout was far superior with the simple vertical scrolling and larger images. There was no reason to fix what wasn't broken. Also major breaking news stories don't get featured at all. They get buried with all other headlines. New version is trash. |
| 2024-06-15 |  | | Have enjoyed the app for years, but the most recent update requires one to change privacy settings on my phone so that they can track my preferences across apps. Tracking to enable personalization should be an option. I am fine without the personalization. The app will not let me use it any longer without my agreeing to change privacy settings. I am deleting the app from my phone. It's unfortunate since it was one of my primary news sources. |
| 2023-12-17 |  | | Trying to read the articles in this app can be challenging. They have advertisements and stuff all over the place. There is a strip across the bottom and if you're scrolling up and you happen to touch that it is going to flip to another article. The content of the articles are very good but trying to get that information with all the bloat/advertising you have in there makes it very frustrating. |
| 2023-09-18 |  | | I've used this app for as long as I've had my phone. Just recently the app hasnt been displaying the articles i click on, all i can see is the heading, not the rest of the articles. Ive tried reinstalling the app but nothing changed. I really enjoy this app because it doesnt throw adds at you every 2 seconds so i hope it gets fixed soon. |
| 2022-04-20 |  | | Why is it that you folks can't have a story on just one page? Instead, I'm reading a story, and I get to a point and it says NEXT. What's up with that? So I read down to another point and it says NEXT again! Sometimes this goes on for 15 pages! The reason why? Too many adds in your content! Adds equal viruses that can get infected into my devices. So, either drop the adds, or I'll drop you. |
| 2020-08-10 |  | | So-so app. Gripes: 1. To get back to headlines, have to swipe to top of the article first. In contrast, Google News (which I'm not plugging here) has an always-visible back arrow to return to headlines. 2. 'Never Autoplay videos' (setting) doesn't stop videos from auto-playing. 3. Can't turn notification sound off. Beyond these design issues, the news offering itself is reasonably comprehensive. |
| 2020-07-29 |  | | News feed works fine. You can customize it to show areas of interest. It has the frustrating habit of sending a push notification with a really interesting headline, but when you open the alert, that news story is not shown. Not even if you scroll all the way down. Half the time it won't even bring up the missing story if you search for the exact title from the push notification. That gets old fast. Also, too many ads mixed in with real news. At least they are now marked as ads. |
| 2020-06-06 |  | | Sensational headlines, spun stories that are one sided, a strong bias toward the left (that's where I stand), and speculation on the future based on worst case scenarios. Irresponsible reporting, especially at this time. Sensationalized headlines, anecdotal stories, little provable facts. "Experts say" without scientific proof. Very poor biased journalism. |
| 2020-05-30 |  | | Disappointing to say the least!! I don't feel this app updates stories quickly. I will open the app and all the stories at 10-15+ hours old, even when I refresh. The stories in my opinion are very bias and the articles are very poorly written(not a lot of information and very grammatical wrong with massive misspellings) and I feel like they just post the same story over and over again. Never much new. Pretty awful. Used to have "Yahoo Lite", way better. |
| 2020-05-05 |  | | Good: Its 360 feature gives +/- quotes from various places and allows comments below. It loads fast, is current, is well written. It has some interesting public feature articles. Bad: It fails to link some face stories to more info. Its headlines are clearly leftist anti-Trump hit lines with accompanying editorialized copy, not near balanced, factual and unbiased journalism. As most people rely on news to learn of events and find genuime truths +/-, this isn't one of those since reformating |
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