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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts app received 53 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts? Can you share your negative thoughts about newsbreak: local news & alerts?
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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts for Negative User Reviews
✓ NopeI read the reviews on this app, paying attention to negative comments… as I always do. Many complained of the left-leaning slant the articles took. I found that to be devastatingly true. I can't get any “local” news, let alone something (Anything!) from Canuckistan. Nope. This app is a bust. Leans so far left I would think it would walk -if it could walk- like Dr. Frankenstein's Igor. Local news? Maybe state-side, but not the Great White North. “How's it goin', eh!” DELETED.Version: 16.0.1
✓ Overwhelmingly NegativeI downloaded this app almost a year ago. I’ve loved it because it does provide notifications on what’s happening in my local area. However lately with the current COVID-19 crisis, it’s all the app has become about. It’s great for staying up to date on what’s happening with the corona virus, however as someone who struggles with anxiety, I’m disappointed and frustrated that every 3 hours I’m getting a notification for something virus-related. I could understand if it was letting me know about business closures in my area or info on the ever-changing stay-at-home order, but it’s not. For example, the most recent one had to do with the surgeon general predicting a high death toll in the next week and “9/11-like moments.” Last night it was something to do with Trump’s statements about the rising death toll as well. I get that it’s a news app, but it used to give me more info than just the current world crisis. I don’t need to hear about all the bad stuff, I’d love some more wholesome content. However I’ve decided to delete the app as I can’t see that happening anytime soon. Again, great app for staying up to date, but not if you’re already overwhelmed by it all. I’d recommend not downloading until the pandemic starts to clear up. 2 stars would be my current rating, but before all of this I would’ve given it 4..Version: 3.5.8
✓ App needs a search and filter featureApp is pretty good, but needs the ability to search the headlines for keywords. Also needs a filter so that certain sources may always be omitted from results, e.g. always exclude CNN, etc. Also, the ability to mark story categories that you don’t want to see anymore would be useful. Say a story pops up about sex or gender issues, and you just prefer not to see those type of stories anymore. Also, big ads which appear as if they are stories are repeating or often shown. It would be nice to mark or tag the ad and say “I’ve seen this, I’m not interested, please don’t show it to me anymore thank you”. The app is surprisingly fast and responsive. There are so many news apps out there, this one seems to distinguish itself by it’s responsiveness — its very fast. The big ads appearing as if they were stories is an interesting take on generating ad revenue, but they are not obtrusive (at least in 2 column landscape mode on an iPad since real stories appear on the left, while the ads feed appears on the right column with other real stories.) The app needs more features as I have mentioned to make it more appealing..Version: 3.7.2
✓ Which BurlingtonI simply want to see news from Burlington, Ontario. I think I get more news fromBurlington, Vermont which I am not the least bit interested in..Version: 19.18.0
✓ Hardly a local news AppI am deleting this app, it is too sluggish opening links, and when It does, it’s s likely about a place somewhere halfway around the world. Also there is too much news from the other end of the country and little local news. I am fed up with this app and therefore deleting it..Version: 19.22.1
✓ Has potential, but hostile comment sections are causing me to delete the app.This app has potential. I like being able to quickly get news without going to Twitter or somewhere else. It’s a quick click. For the most part articles sent to notifications have been relevant (although the frequent click bait stimulus articles have been annoying). However, the comment sections are horrible. For some reason racist, anti-mask Trump supporters have flooded this app. They leave awful, aggressive comments and harass anyone who has a differing opinion. I have attempted to have civil conversations in the comment sections (and have seen others attempt to do the same) and we have only been met with aggressive hostility. These comment sections either need to be deleted or need to be heavily moderated. I haven’t seen an option to report comments either. So unfortunately, I will be deleting this app to protect my own mental health and caution others about downloading it. It’s draining. Keeping up with the news can be draining enough, but the hostility in the comments is disgusting. I will be checking out other news apps and am hoping to find one that hasn’t been overrun by hateful bigots..Version: 3.8.5
✓ Kate MiddletonWhy are you calling Katherine kate Middleton. She hasn’t been kate Middleton for years Very tacky guys ..Version: 19.26.0
✓ Version françaiseÀ quand une version française pour le Canada (Québec) ? Votre application est extrêmement utile mais malheureusement uniquement en anglais pour le Canada! Sinon je vous accorderais un 5 étoiles.Version: 19.10.0
✓ It’s decent.. but there are some fatal flaws.I downloaded this app to keep up to date with some things in Orlando while I’m here. Upon looking through various articles on the app, not only did I find that a lot of them were irrelevant to the news I actually needed, (news about crimes, laws, COVID-19 rules and so on), I noticed that the comments of most articles are just filled to the brim with spam, toxicity and hate speech toward one race. With especially a lot of hate toward black people. Every article I saw that included a black person or had nothing to do with black people always had a bunch of users in the comments going “stupid black people are the devil race” or “black people cannot be as smart as white people”. There have been other statements and even more horrible and derogatory ones the further you look into them. There are literal accounts on this platform dedicated just to hating on another race/ethnicity and it’s as if no one is watching over the community and moderating these comments/accounts. It really does not create a positive experience for anyone on the app and it sure doesn’t create one for anyone actually leaving useful comments under the articles. Like I said, this is a decent app for keeping up with local news in your area and has the potential to be on the level of an app like Citizen, but I would really like for there to be an option to report entire accounts rather than just block them. As of this review being posted, I have deleted the app..Version: 19.26.0
✓ UPDATE ON REVIEW!! LINKS ARE BROKEN/OPEN UP!!IF I COULD GIVE IT A “ZERO” NOW I WOULD!! UPDATE: This program has gotten worse vs. better over the two weeks. It got to the point when I click on the notification area to read the news report that I wanted, the screen would come up blank!! But, when the article that I want to read does show, I still can’t finish reading the full article/news report I wanted, the links are still broken/won’t open up!!! OLD REVIEW-WAS A 3 STAR THE GREAT THING’S: I love the news stories that is available to read, especially the verity that is there. I like the way the program remembers what type of news you like & updates you on these areas of news that a person likes to read. I especially like the categories on how the news areas is set up. I use the application a lot, since I have the notification’s on news areas that I like to read. NOW THE BAD THINGS: I would have given the program a “Five.” But, I am getting annoyed that when I want to read the news notification that I set up “I am not able to do so!” The link at the bottom of each part of the news story won’t open up most of the time. You only get to read the “Teaser part of the news only & not the whole news story!!” I usually have to shut the program down & reload it, before the news extensions/links will work. But when I do that, I can’t find the story that I wanted to read in the 1st place, when I had to restart the program! Please fix this problem & I will update my review..Version: 9.0.2
✓ A waste of timeYet another app full of “purchase opportunities”. Questionable headlines that lead to “subscribe now”. Don’t bother!.Version: 19.15.1
✓ No radio as advertisedThere’s no radio anything in this app. Don’t know why they’re lying about it having the ability to steam radio. Very strange.Version: 3.7.0
✓ Expand your sources & Is there and Editor for your relatively new News section?Today from one of the “content providers” who looked to be about 22, and had an agenda to share his view that Americans who think this is a great country are WRONG! Why because of the recent SCOTUS rulings. Then he proceeded to only revel in his genius because they have the ability to limit comments. So you want to just allow people a platform to espouse only one sides view. THAT IS WHY WE ARE A GREAT COUNTRY WE HAVE THE 1st Amendment that allows me a dissenting view. However, I have noticed that several of these “content contributors” simply misstate facts or eschew the fact that a 5 minute internet search will allow them to find the true facts rather than spewing misinformation. Are their No Editors for your “content creators?” Isn’t it your view that if you give these yahoos a platform, you should at least make them use facts and not myths? This used to be a good app but now that you have started your News Dept it’s almost unreadable and is certainly another platform spreading misinformation. Finally, maybe you should learn from others like BuzFeed or CNN+ and ensure what you put your BRANDNAME on is at least factually correct?!? I don’t recommend!.Version: 23.26.0
✓ Great when it worksI love the fact that I can see all the news stories in one place instead of trying to look all over the web for them. However, I also deleted this app due to the many glitches I have encountered which cause frustration when there’s a story your really interested in reading. I’ll receive a notification for a news story, and after clicking it, the app will open up. Then 9 times out of 10 I’ll click to open the story and nothing will happen. I have to close the app and then reopen it, then try and search through the articles to find the one I received a notification for. Since I tapped the notification, I’m not able to tap it again. I usually just give up and go search google. The same thing tends to happen with the stories I might be interested in that show when scrolling to the bottom. The first link might work, but the rest won’t work at all. Of course when I go online to use the news-break website, I always end up getting redirected to open the app for the article..Version: 4.0.0
✓ News for the Woke and VacuousThis app will alert you to breaking local news sometimes, which is useful. Precisely because that news is breaking, this feed cannot, of course, be fairly faulted for its lack of detailed coverage in those situations. What I find downright annoying, though, is the so-called "progressive" spin of so much of the news coverage, much along the same nauseating lines as Yahoo! News and MSNBC. A secondary drawback is its over-emphasis, IMHO, on some of the basest elements of mass culture. If you prefer your daily dose of saccharine blue pill mental analgesic, then perhaps this is the echo chamber for you. You'll also be among the first to learn when soap opera stars marry or when sports stars re-sign with their teams. But if your sense of personal integrity and commitment to the truth have led you to choose the red pill, instead, despite its bitterness, then you'll look elsewhere for your information, though perhaps holding on to this site, too, for an occasional taste of the swill others are swallowing..Version: 19.10.0
✓ Would have given 5 until they made this 1 changeI really enjoyed this app because unlike most others, it’s not an echo chamber of the same side of the isle stuff over and over again. They are a little left biased somewhat but that’s just because of how awful the media is minus a small percentage. But..now they want you to sign in using google or Facebook or to create an account so they can continue to track your speech. I used to be able to comment anonymously without needed to sign in with one of my accounts but not anymore. You can still upvote and downvote comments but you can’t comment yourself anymore. Which wasn’t how it always was and I like it that way. If anyone says something inappropriate or threatening, you can still report it and you would do that even if you didn’t have an account with a user name before. But not anymore and that’s a major drawback for me..Version: 19.14.2
✓ UnimpressedI told it to stop sending notifications to my watch but it continued to do so. Uninstalled it immediately thereafter..Version: 19.15.1
✓ Degenerated fastI've been using this app for about 3 years. I've been able to discern between their legitimate articles and their crap. I really appreciated the comment section. As of today, it's been a week since I've been able to post and/or receive comments. That's the only reason I would dig through the articles to find some with a sibilance of honesty and unbiased reporting. Being as that is difficult and now I can't discuss my opinions or the opinions of others makes this just another app. Reading the reviews I don't understand how you show such a high rating for this app when most are negative. I shared my experience with people I've recommended the app to and we agree that you are biased and are censoring your comment section to the detriment of Christian conservatives. So I and the 11 people I recommended this hack of sight to will or have already deleted it. Thankfully reading your reviews was given suggestions for better apps and will download those apps and delete yours. I would wish you luck but I wouldn't mean it. I don't agree with selectively muting or blocking certain people and letting others spew hate and filth. If that's the site you want we will move along to a better article where we can express our views without someone deciding they don't like what I say and just not letting me be a part of the conversation. C-ya.Version: 23.17.0
✓ Tardiness of postLove the approach but article’s are normally days old.Version: 19.9.0
✓ Extremely bigoted commentsI just deleted this app but when I first downloaded it, I actually liked it at first as it sent news from a variety of sources. What I did not enjoy was that there were no anti-racist, anti-lgbt, or anti-xenophobic (and literally anything else alike) comments. Everyone has their opinions and even if I don’t comment myself, I like looking down there to see what people think of certain events. At some point in time, I realized that there were almost no comments that were non-bigoted. It really seems like this app is deleting those comments and encouraging racist people who are all types of “-ists” to keep commenting stuff that not only make other people uncomfortable but were to the point that they commented that wanted to physically harm others. That’s my spiel. I hope you know you’re disgusting and encouraging hate in America by doing this, NewsBreak. You’re a company and I know you’ll never change your ways but to whoever reads this and you know you’re contributing to that, I hope you know you’re making this world a worse place..Version: 23.22.0
✓ Daily CORONAVIRUS information (State links to DPH) outdatedI can only speak for Georgia; the state's Department of Public Health (DPH) link has been outdated for over a month... the link takes you to a "Page Not Found" error. A little editorial work, or delegation thereof by the NewsBreak editors (or even allowing email feedback on the NewsBreak app - I tried that and they haven't even set up an email link for Support!!) and they would have known about the issue themselves without someone having to leave a shoddy review. Additionally, if you live Local to a tired old newspaper - the kind that literally will not allow a single story to be seen/read online (beyond the first couple of sentences) without your purchasing a subscription - you won't ever get any actual Local news. NewsBreak shouldn't even post these stories! It's basically an offshoot of clickbait...." Here's a breaking news story in your area!! [Reader clicks] Oopsy. You'll have to pay if you want to know how the investigation into the unsolved murder of a beloved 83 year old woman in your community is or isn't progressing, though the flailing TimesGeorgian wrote a headline that makes it sound like the sheriff has leads... it's just clickbait to make you buy a subscription and find out the sheriff is still baffled.".Version: 3.7.4
✓ What is thisPeople who write for this are absolute morons and need to go back to school 💀.Version: 3.7.7
✓ News breakNo use for scotland or UK.Version: 19.25.0
✓ Good for news, bad for commentsI love the news break app and was introduced to it by a friend in march when covid was getting serious in the US, for more information. i love how you can have local news and national news alerts and covid stats in one place. however, there’s a few issues that need to be fixed. the comment sections on topics, specifically regarding trump and covid, there is insane radicalization and fake news being spread around in the comments and their replies. these comments spew hate and false information that is very dangerous. it is irresponsible for news break to not being filtering or disabling comments right now, especially since it is a literal news app. i have seen literal death threats to government officials, false information, and even more misinformation about the covid vaccine. it is so important that news break does something about this comment section because radicalization and misinformation about a vaccine that could save thousands of lives is very dangerous. i don’t want to go to check my news in the morning and see trump supporters spewing hate and threats and false information..Version: 7.0.0
✓ Other locationsI used to get news from Atlanta where I have an interest in and now I can only see news from UK, they won’t allow me to put in any other country in the world….Version: 19.21.0
✓ Great Place Trolls ThriveThis app is actually a fantastic news aggregate that makes it REALLY easy to get local news sources. What makes it terrible is actually it’s user base. Trolls get plenty to eat due to the ease of anonymity and unaccountability. If there were no comments allowed, this would be a five star app. Don’t bother looking at the comments and you’ll have a wonderful experience. RESPONDING TO APP DEV RESPONSE: At the very least, please add a preference to simply remove the reactions & comments from the UI. Let the trolls feed each other, but I don’t care for any opinions on already opinionated news. Left, right, up, down; don’t care for a “community voice” when it’s just a bunch of unaccountable feeders. I don’t engage in social media for this very reason, so please make it optional. Otherwise your inaction is simply enabling, and perpetuating this behavior. I get you monitor, but that obviously is NOT good enough because it’s incredibly prevalent. UPDATE: No they have done nothing to rid this platform of bigotry and hate. I’m lowering my rating to a 1 star. So again, I ask that we get an option to simply not show comments at all. It’s a simple toggle to show or hide the comment bubble. Obviously we can’t report and block enough to stop seeing ignorance and hate and your platform doesn’t know how to control it..Version: 23.33.0
✓ Deletes anti racist comments and leaves racist comments upI think it’s funny how I always consistently see extremely racist slurs and statements commented by many people, but any time I comment something in defense to these racist comments, my comments just disappear? Honestly, I leave nastier comments on different topics (people being sexist, etc) yet those aren’t deleted.. but every comment I have in defense to racism is always deleted? I’ve made sure to not include any sort of hateful vocabulary many times before, and they’re always deleted. So much is wrong with this. If you can delete my comments or prevent them from posting, you could easily do the same for these racist comments that I’m feeling the need to respond and defend in the first place. Don’t make me feel wrong for defending unnecessary hate. You’re wrong for supporting it. All those hateful comments and users all ignorantly comments the things they do because of apps like yours. Because you’ve made it obvious which side you’re on, and they love it. An app like yours shouldn’t have biases, but it’s obvious that you care more about supporting the hateful space you’ve created rather than making smarter business decisions. Just like I say to everyone I comment to, karma is real and whatever you think that makes you feel oh so untouchable is the exact reason you will receive the karma you deserve..Version: 22.17.0
✓ App needs to be shut down and under investigationYou get 1 star for sharing the news and that's it! This app only does one thing right and that's report the news. But please explain to me why there's no consequence to the racist comments you allow in the comment section? There shouldn't even be a comment section!! This isn't FB or IG nor Twitter!!! The comments are so vile I'm convinced this app is ran by extreme racist. The comments are so bad against blacks and other minorities mainly blacks it's disgusting!!! Theyre so racist they assume it was a black person who did the crime and make vile comments only to find out it was a white person. Fake names crazy profile pictures. They openly use nasty racist words, threats, harrassimg people in the comment section. We report them and nothing is being done about it. If you won't fix it (disable or filter the comment section) and have rules then I guess it's time to get people to cancel this app and get it shut down!!! Share the news and THAT'S IT!! Nothing else is important!!!! You can save the same Copy and paste response you dish to the other reviews about the racist comment section. Your agenda is clearly seen!!!.Version: 22.7.0
✓ News stories .I enjoy the stories from around the country but often wonder why I,m seeing a news item from somewhere in the USA or Australia just because the Name is identical. Check out Woodbridge for example !!!.Version: 19.10.0
✓ Some good, some badIt’s a nice layout, the main/top stories are presented nicely, and overall pleasant to look at, but the fake Clickbait articles are awful & plentiful. Some of the editors don’t seem to try with actual content and rely on misleading headlines to generate a click. It makes the experience of using any news app less trustworthy. It also seems that the keyword or “cookies” system is broken, just because I clicked a random article about roller-coasters or bacon, it does not mean that I want 100s of news articles about that targeting me forever. I find myself going through the headlines but afraid to click as to not generate a cookie on a topic that I’m not interested in. Overall it can be an entertaining app to use, and there are some reliable articles but the whole thing is over saturated with fake news and click-bait type of stuff, bringing the overall experience down..Version: 23.27.0
✓ Forget about blockingNo matter how often you select Not interested or Block, you will wind up getting the same irrelevant crap over and over and over again. Useless..Version: 14.5.1
✓ Great amount of news with strong liberal biasNews Break has a great deal of strong liberal bias. I realize News Break uses outside sources for news, that said, please consider a conservative source such as the Daily Wire, etc. Fox News no longer qualifies as conservative. I really like News Break other than the aforementioned bias. I also realize the presidential administration is changing. I think it’s important to point out that 49% of the country identifies as conservative. I know several people who have deleted this app due to the strong liberal bias but I hope my comment will be heard and I can avoid deleting this mostly useful app. Also many states don’t have COVID lockdowns and many states including my own don’t require masks to be worn so getting hourly COVID updates is tantamount to getting the snow report when you live in Hawaii. The bottom line is for every strong liberal talking point can you at least mention a strong conservative talking point?.Version: 6.0.0
✓ Great if you like trivial clickbait and political spam.This news feed can be tamed a bit over time by giving negative feedback to bad articles or by blocking bad posters. However there are too many of these, perpetrated by large outlets spamming their political agendas and by individual contributors spamming their social agendas. Which is great if you like endless climate alarmism, imaginary sob stories, and stale sophistry about social issues. One can easily identify which social and political issues are being either pushed or vilified by Big Media. A minority of articles are real news, however they must be screened one by one, which gets tiring. Edited to add that I’ve been informed by the developer that they are working to reduce low quality contributors. I will improve my rating from two stars to three pending my evaluation of their most recent update. Edited to add that the problem is getting worse rather than better. Every day one has to wade through a spate of new irrelevant posts and misinformation to get to the real news. Mediocrity appears the norm for their ‘independent contributors’..Version: 23.34.1
✓ Racist AppIrresponsible News App…because of apps like this is the reason racism is still a thing…most all news is targeted toward brown people with tan people being the suspects…I don’t see reporting on brown on brown crime, never see Asian, Indian, etc crimes…this app is like watching the news, but worse…because of who runs this app (a racist) we are only seeing what they want to report on…even the adds target hate toward people with tan skin…news shouldn’t be focused around race whatsoever, all crime should be reported on, with an emphasis on all the missing…I wish we could all come together, and focus on the brainwashing the government and apps like this one are perpetrating on all Americans to hate each other…if we hate each other, we can’t focus on what the government is doing and stealing from all of us!!! All our brothers and sisters need to come together and find the common ground on we’re our focus should be, because if this keeps up racism will be a side note when we become a 3rd world country with all the rich politicians, and Hollywood stars moving to other countries, leaving us here to kill each other over clean water, and bread!.Version: 23.35.0
✓ I agree!I can only agree wholeheartedly with the writer above. This column has found it’s way to my email. I was already finished with any CNN daily dreadful gossip sensations, and this is more of the same..Version: 19.12.0
✓ Interruptions in storiesI find your app frustrating when I’m reading “feel good” stories and I can’t get to the end. It keeps going back to the beginning, lets me get a little further into it, goes back to the beginning again and again. Never allowing me to finish the article..Version: 19.26.0
✓ So, I have a friend I’d like you to meet...In this day in age.. where all news is biased. A friend of mine shared one of your articles. So I do the natural thing. Download your app just so I can read it. Even allow the “push notifications.” Because, As rare as it is, I actually, genuinely, still want to hear what people have to say!!! I really enjoyed this channel for a few days. Fast. Direct. To the point. And then. As we are known to say in the south. “Welp?”. (Sarcasm inserted). I know I’m a nobody and I am just a little tiny review. And maybe I’m just fed up like everybody across the nation is for so many reasons. Ya know. I guess for what it’s worth. I’d just like to see a small news company be the change. The one that speaks all sides. Actually fact checks. All sides. Real is what people want in this digital driven age. People are afraid of the truth. They don’t always like it. But whether they know it or not.. people respect it. Thank you. Disclaimer. I do not troll the internet, nor am I some new self proclaimed activist or wannabe. I think I’ve written 3 reviews for anything in my life. Just felt the need to vent or whatever. Or at the very least. Maybe give someone a good laugh. Maybe I should like many people. Just get a diary. Welp!.Version: 3.8.5
✓ NotificationsAlways ask for. No, one time is enough..Version: 3.2.5
✓ I like this app but...I like the news, I like being able to track the virus cases in my city and I like being able to track the protests. Of course there are some repetitive articles, but this app doesn’t report the news it compiles it in an easy place for us all to see. What I really hate about this app is the community, doesn’t matter what article you go to you’ll find terrible terrible bigots in the comment section. These comments really need to be moderated, and a lot of those people really should be put on a watch list. They think because they’re just sitting behind a phone screen they can say what they want, but that’s not how it is. Everyone needs to learn that the comments they leave effect people, it’s not what you meant to say it’s how other people perceive what you say that matters. Some of these comments are just so heinous and terrible skewed towards incredibly racist undertones and even sometimes it’s so blatant you’re just surprised. If we’re talking about the actual app though, it’s pretty great, but I think you should disable the comments seriously..Version: 3.6.9
✓ Not a Real News SourceI downloaded this app because news stories from local sources often linked to articles here, usually articles by the local newspaper where they are not available to read online unless you have an subscription. At first I thought it was a pretty good source for a variety of news articles but have quickly seen that the entire app is like one big radio morning show with odd pieces of trivia and other off-beat news stories. Many of the articles come off as legit, but when you look closely, it’s clear that it’s all made up. Another issue is the rapid fire ads that are blasted in your face. One article I tried to read opened with some radio station’s banner across the top of page, a video ad adjacent to the banner and another on the lower part of the page. While trying to read the headline to see if I clicked on the right article, a screen filling ad for the same radio station that already had taken up almost half the page with banner and video ads shockingly popped up. I tried to close the pop up ad but it opened another full screen ad first so I had to close it then the other ad. Frankly, it’s just a constant visual assault that is frustrating. So if you like mostly fake (unverified) news, radio station morning show approach, and constant sensory assault from an app, this is the app for you..Version: 23.30.0
✓ Racist companyYes a lot of ppl of color now know for a fact this company is 100% racist. Ppl of color can mimic a white person racial comment Word for word And the comment FAILED TO POST BUT the white persons comment post like a sleeping new baby. SO WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? Many ppl of color has done this word for word a a white person racial nasty comment and guess what the little box comes up FAILED TO POST!!! I’ll update my review when we ppl of color see that your trying to stop us from being called all racial names by your white posters A GOOD IDEA IS TO FORCE THEM TO USE A REAL NAME AND PIC JUST LIKE FACEBOOK DOES NOW AND IF THEY HAVE NO ACCT FORCE THEM TO HAVE ONE IN ORDER TO POST THEN YOU CAN REALLY KNOW WHO THE PERSON IS? We ppl of color are so tired of even a story of a infant turned and call black this or blk monkey baby that YES WE GET ANGRY BECAUSE YOUR COMPANY FAILS OR WORDS BACK TO THEM AND THEY CONTINUE TO CALL US INHUMAN NAMES EVEN GEORGE FLOYD DEATH THE WHITE PPL ARE ALLOWED TO SAY BLK DEAD AS N HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED OH AND THEY CALL ANY STORY ABOUT A MURDERED CHILD AND THE STORY YOU JUST WROTE ABOUT THE CHILD IN DETROIT THAT WAS TAKEN FROM THE PARENTS AT GUNPOINT THEY BELITTLED THAT BABY LIKE A ANIMAL SO YOU SEE UNTIL YOU HOLD THIS RACIAL ISSUES ACCOUNTABLE WE HAVE TO SAY TO ANYONE THAT WILL LISTEN ITS ALLOWED.Version: 14.5.1
✓ Ads and irrelevant storiesI checked out this news app after having refrained from using one for over two years because it is #1 in the news category in the app store. I deleted it after 2 minutes. It's littered with ads, and the built in browser is clunky. The amount of information you'll obtain in a few swipes is miniscule because news headline links take up an entire page. Terrible UI design. If you need news on your phone, do yourself a favor and buy an adblocking app like 1Blocker and add the safari bookmarks of reputable news sources like Reuters to your iPhone's home screens. You'll get no ads, you'll be able to CHOOSE the sources you want to read from and overall will be a more active digester of the news. Why anyone uses these ad infested hunks of UI garbage is beyond me. Don't download. They also sell your digital soul to the devil and God knows to whom such a small little company like this sells your data to. They also have no option to delete your account through their app. Sus..Version: 3.5.6
✓ Repetitive postsI like this app for the fact that I can can pretty current local news. The biggest down side is that there is a repetitive almost and onslaught to just make a news break about the stimulus check. The post are over and over saying when you will get your stimulus or how much you will receive them but when you pay attention there really is no update at all. It seems like it is just making people who have the app anxious or aggravated that we don’t have the stimulus check yet. If there is not a real actual and factual update then don’t post a news break stating the same speculation reworded. Your only making your users more and more impatient for the stimulus. I never see a repetitive post about anything else. I hope this is not politically motivated because this is not news if there is no actual updated news to report on the same subject. I don't want to delete this app because it is good for local news like is previously stated but I will if I keep getting flooded with the same non-news post about the stimulus..Version: 3.7.0
✓ What you’re really gettingA feed of article headlines and pictures ranging from what Kim kardashian wore to bed (and you’re not gonna believe the reaction) to more serious presidential news. All taken from a diverse spectrum of prestigious news organizations to rinky-dink news outlets I am unfamiliar with that with the click of a story, you are instantly redirected to their news page. The reason for my rating, is that I wanted a more selective group of stories by which I mean I have no interest in knowing “Pregnant Katy Perry looks stunning in no-makeup selfie amid quarantine” or any “no cover” topics in my mind and have no way of weeding out of my feed. Nor do I enjoy when I (admittedly) don’t check first and am redirected from the app to the website of a news source most would find unsuitable for a work setting . Furthermore on the rare occasion I find a story I wish to look into, I click the link, the page nearly loads, crashes, automatically begins reloading, crashes a second time, when I am then left with a dimly lit, gray, blank page, and yet again no interesting story. With my options reduced to worthless page fillers and an eternity of refreshing only to never be able to read the article that made it worth the bandwidth used downloading this app in the first place, I fully intend on uninstalling the second I post this warning..Version: 3.5.8
✓ Too much liberal bias too few facts.Mostly propaganda for the anarchists in the democrat party..Version: 3.7.9
✓ Mislocation and crappy presentationI live in Norfolk UK and often get feeds from Norfolk USA. In addition once a feed is opened it is swamped by adverts and the presentation screwed up up by screen refreshes due to adverts. Basically whilst the content is interesting the way it is presented is appalling..Version: 19.25.0
✓ Used to get vital info but now....I really used to appreciate the NewsBreak notifs because they were new and informative. In past two months though I have gotten, literally, 3 notifs a day about the Second Stimulus that there has been no new info about especially while Congress is on break. Why do you keep torturing those of us who really need REAL info about the Stimulus because we cannot go back to work? It’s more than annoying, it almost feels like the app is rubbing it in our faces. If you read the comments under each of these articles I am not alone. Last article had 3,000 comments saying exactly what I’m saying. I am turning off notifs and will rely on local news app from now on. UPDATE: I have deleted the app. Not only am I still getting 5 articles a day about this stimulus package still and there’s no new news..... on top of that the app is linked through Facebook so any political article has some of worst commenters who spew hate speech and threaten violence. I spent a few days reporting the comments but it doesn’t matter. The most sane thing to do just delete. I get my news from large political outlets who don’t have uneducated people threatening people who don’t support the president’s narrative. Take out the Facebook link for comments (IE make us make an account) and quit sending the same articles 5 times a day and I will return..Version: 3.7.2
✓ Why can’t I delete your app?Please delete your app from settings!.Version: 19.20.0
✓ Inappropriate notificationsDon’t send a headline notification until story is available on your site! Fearmongering!.Version: 19.6.0
✓ Local News cam be found elsewhere without the dubious articlesAt first it seemed convenient. I live in NYC and sometimes just the sheer density of it all can drown out some truly local news. And it was sometimes handy that covid info was readily available in the app. But whether it’s just by circumstance or design, the feed shows a pattern of peppering real news with dubious reports and some outright disinformation. I’m not talking about the NY Post that’s a highly opinionated, politically charged tabloid-it’s always been a part of NYC’s landscape and their inclusion in the local coverage is understandable. I’m talking about truly blatant misinformation about covid, vaccines and politics, and from “news” sites no one’s ever heard of. It’s not clogging the feed, but their occasional appearances make it almost more insidious. It may be just their algorithms doing this, but as it’s already just another tech firm trying to capitalize on others’ content, I don’t like it and don’t trust it. Better off following a couple of local newspapers and TV stations in your area since that’s all they’re really doing..Version: 14.5.1
✓ Good for a fast read.I started out loving this app. It was great for my local news. It gave stories sometimes first, sometimes those I couldn’t get elsewhere. I started using this app in February. By April it started having so many bugs it was barely useable. If you actually get linked to a story shown, and then want to follow on to another shown below, it won’t follow the link. So then you think ok, I’ll open it in Safari, but then you get the first story and can’t find the one you wanted to read on the homepage of that news outlet to which have been directed. It is terribly frustrating. This app has the potential to be one of the best news apps for local news and has done a great job of keeping readers up to date on the corona virus and its ramifications in my area. But it is not quite at being fully integrated. I end up loving and hating it at the same time. I admit to being a news junkie so I always want to read MORE. Developer, please, bring this to the next level. For those who want a fast read of generally what’s happinging in your area, give this a try..Version: 3.6.2
✓ Yet Another NewsBreak FailI previously wrote a review complaining how even if you opened an article in Safari the page would remain in a NewsBreak container, making it difficult to share the legitimate link without jumping through hoops. That review has mysteriously disappeared. Now you can't open articles in Safari AT ALL, and that is just unconscionable. Restricting people from being able to perform normal functions for no other reason than to drive traffic to your own site is a really bad look, and makes the app useless for anything other than reading headlines in notifications that do nothing more than inspire you to search the web for the legitimate articles. Zero stars until you restore some semblance of normal functionality. You have now ensured I will NEVER share a NewsBreak link for any reason. Nobody else should either. Let people use the Web as it was intended and stop trying to control them for your own self-serving interests. I have saved this review so I can repost it in the event it also disappears..Version: 22.31.1
✓ All about the ads…They replaced the “Following” tab with a “Videos” tab now. I don’t want to watch videos. I want to read articles from sources I follow and not what you force on the feed. I follow those sources because they aren’t LOADED with ads, they’re local, and I can actually read them. Now, what’s the point of following my preferred sources when I can’t even find them? Super frustrating. The vast majority of “news sources” on this app are overflowing with ads. To the point where they aren’t readable. Even the opening splash screen for the app itself is misleading and invasive. BTW, for you newbies, there used to never be an opening ad splash. You used to be able to just, you know, READ THE NEWS. Advertising in this app has gotten out of control. This app used to be my go-to news source. Frustration and disappointment is all I get now. I am so done with this thing. How I wish there was an app out there that actually lets me read the local news I care about and not the drivel that comes from corporate media. 😡😤.Version: 23.20.0
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