Quit auto launching videos
Whenever I click on a news article, if that piece has a video element, there is no way to close the video player and just read the report. I have to force close the app in order to continue.
Mobile ads are a real pain
The ads are too long. Make it stop
Ads too many ads
I rather view from my browser for the random 30 second pop up ads on the app are annoying
Too many ads
Every article is loaded with so many ads you can’t read it. For comparison, pull up a story on Fark, then pull up the same story on the original website. The difference is night and day. What finally drove me off was the long unskipable ad for that King game (King’s Ransom?) I know they need to sell ads to make money, but they’ve made the site unreadable with too many ads.
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Turn off Autoplay?
80-90% of articles have full screen autoplay videos that are persistent (pop back up after being closed). Very hard to use this app. Of course this is not really the dev’s fault because the content is hosted on the sites that are being linked to, but perhaps there can be an implementation of limiting autoplay videos?
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Waaay too many ads
Adds that start full
Volume are a deal breaker. The app is super glitchy too
Volume are a deal breaker. The app is super glitchy too
Getting worse
Even with paid subscription, forces ads from other sites that you can’t close. Starting to become unusable
Use to be good, now, not so much
News/ad/N/Ad-Ad/NAd-Ad/Ad
Enough is too mach
Enough is too mach
Fark is linking to annoying links now
Been reading Fark (and paying for it happily) for years. Love the puns, references to things only older folks know. Great app first thing every morning. BUT, lately the links go to articles protected by a paywall, or worse to sites that autorun a commercial in the middle of the article an there is no way to get ‘er gone. Shut the commercial and it immediately returns. Have to shut Fark and restart then avoid the article. Truly annoying. Happening several times a day now. Otherwise it's six stars.
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Ads
Full of so many hostagetaking ads. What a joke. The last thing I want on my phone is some 30 second video of a game that I can’t click out of. Absolute woke piece of garbage.
Topics not correct
All of the topics other than “Main” are messed up. It appears that the “Main” topic contents are displayed under all of the other topics. I.e.: “Politics” has the exact same topics as Main, Sports, Entertainment,etc.. Deleted/reinstalled same results. On IOS 17.1.2….
Update: seems to have been resolved
Update: seems to have been resolved
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Ok when it works
Every few weeks the app will close as soon as you open it, the only solution is to reinstall it. Then you get a new problem as every section has the exact same content as Main for a couple weeks. Then you get a few weeks with it working like it should before the headache starts all over. Easier to just open Fark in a mobile browser.
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Ad-Free - videos
I paid the annual subscription to get ad-free. Now when click the links to get the article- I get videos that are not ads - i get videos of teeth whitening, body growths, sores, moles etc… Maybe someone thinks the videos are cool, but I find most of them gross and have cancelled my renewal- in 10 months. And I won’t be using the Fark app anymore. Waste of money.
When I click on links directly out of fark.com, this does not happen- it is not website related -these videos are only in this app.
When I click on links directly out of fark.com, this does not happen- it is not website related -these videos are only in this app.
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Ads are waaaaaaay too long
The ads are twice as long as they used to be, and it’s unbearable
Ads
Full of so many hostagetaking ads. What a joke. The last thing I want on my phone is some 30 second video of a game that I can’t click out of.
Intollerable
I love fark. I hate the app. Takeover ads. Long ads. Ad you to death. Crap video game ads. Ads with no way to close the ad. Intolerable. Dont download. Avoid
Love it
Read daily
Poor article viewing
Lots of times I click on a link to read an article and it starts loading, and I can read for five seconds or so but then the page just goes blank ( probably because the articles have tons of Java script and ad tracker type stuff on them ) …
I could do without the full screen find the X to close type ads too. Banner ads are enough and are not annoying, but full screen ads are obnoxious and a sign of greed by the developers.
I could do without the full screen find the X to close type ads too. Banner ads are enough and are not annoying, but full screen ads are obnoxious and a sign of greed by the developers.
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Inappropriate pop up
I got a pop up for a naughty site when I selected an NPR article. No reason to get it. Now I am concerned about the overall health of my phone. I uninstalled the app with post haste. Can this be explained?
V4 needs updated
I’ve used this app for years BUT you need to update version 4 to account for the new tab catagories on fark.com. “GEEK” tab is gone and replaced with “STEM”. “D’AWWW” is a new category as well as “DISCUSSION”.
I realize you have version 5 now but not everyone can install IOS13 nor want to.
->updated March 4, 2021: back in November you stated that an update was coming to support the new Fark tabs for non-IOS13 users. When is this update going to be made available?
I realize you have version 5 now but not everyone can install IOS13 nor want to.
->updated March 4, 2021: back in November you stated that an update was coming to support the new Fark tabs for non-IOS13 users. When is this update going to be made available?
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