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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy official announcement: I am boycotting Huffington Post, for good. (Updated)
For these reasons, I no longer will EVER go to a Huffer Post link, anymore.
1. Huffington Post brass screw their writers.
2. The page takes too long to load, when it actually DOES load.
I just tried reading an article there, and my anti-virus blocked THREE attempts at shoving malware/adware/viruses into my computer.
After the page stopped dead the third time, I gave up.
3. Huffington Post is a unabashed advocate for the worst quacks.
Anti-vaxxers, dubious (at best) "treatments," if a quack advocates it, Huffington Post will run it.
And not be critical of it either.
Update: Adding an article from the "Encyclopedia of Americans Loons."
http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/11/780-arianna-huffington.html
alp227
(31,961 posts)For AP news articles, don't go there but rather:
http://bigstory.ap.org/
Good thing though is that Mike Malloy often provides an "audiobook" version of Huffpo on his show, so I think I gotta upload audio clips of those when he reads & comments on Huffpo articles.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)I have been looking for an alternative to HP - which is also getting more trashy everyday.
I also like: http://www.theepochtimes.com/ for a different perspective.
TheMathieu
(456 posts)The only stories worth a damn on those sites are when they're directly quoting from a reputable mainstream source.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Do I go there on a regular basis? No, but I have seen good stories linked to them before, and I will read them then.
alp227
(31,961 posts)This article got a lot of recs when it was originally posted last summer: 10 things transphobes say that make me facepalm. Part of it excerpted at DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023524019
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)and virus alerts from them also. I don't bother clicking on a huffpo link anymore.
MFM008
(19,776 posts)I have never had any trouble with loading time or virus's.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)That's why one has to question the rest of the content.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It's the "Super walmart" of websites.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)...and have been surviving just fine.
Left it behind for all of your reasons and Arianna Huffington, who is just too annoying to support in any manner.
hunter
(38,264 posts)Their pages stall.
I guess it's because I like my privacy and don't accept cookies from strangers.
It was easier just to block them then to accidentally click on a page that went dead.