Until recently, this app did what a bite-size news app should: provide quick summaries of news items, along with source links so you can learn more.
But now, they’ve removed source links. So the depth of the app is gone, as is any form of attribution.
You can’t trust anything in the app, because you can’t see where it came from. At best, this is stealing content without crediting the source; at worst, they may be summarizing content from thoroughly untrustworthy sources and passing it off as truth. Or just making it up entirely. There’s no way to tell.
Either way, the ability to read more was key. By embedding the link browser within the app, it made the entire experience sticky and valuable. Not anymore.
The other changes to the app are fine. There’s a paid tier, and news items that are clearly ads. They need to monetize, and those are reasonable strategies.
But I wouldn’t recommend the app to anybody now.
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