It seems like nearly every regional newspaper website uses Reach. I swear that nobody who actually works at these places actually uses their own sites.

• Usually loaded with an insane number of "partners" on the cookie banner (I've seen some well into the thousands)
• You can't read the content because the page keeps jumping about as it's loading ads in
• Ads overlay the content with a close button so small that even a tardigrade would get pissed off over it
• Any scroll action on your phone that isn't perfectly straight swipes you to the next article
• Because your device has to load 26TB of ads, it takes forever to go back to the previous article
• There's an ad between each sentence.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25080087

This has been shining in my eyes for the last 10 minutes whilst the bus driver takes a break.

It's only up from here, boys and gals.

Welcome to the Wednesdsy Whinge.

A chance for you to get some stuff off you chest and into writing.

Moan off at your fellow community members in the safety of a community that's made for it.

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge.

Weather's shit innit?

Anyway, now the obvious is out of the way. The Wednesday Whinge is a chance to get some of the bad thoughts out of your noggin.

Unload on your peers and we'll all agree that you really should just quit you job, bin off the partner and kids, or just actually give that neighbour a piece of your mind.

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge.

A chance for you to moan online about all the things everyone in your real life is bored of hearing about.

A whole fresh new audience to listen to you go on and on about that one thing you just can't get over.

So go ahead and let it all out! We're really listening this time.

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge, you bunch of whiners, you.

Time to get the woes from the past 7 days up out of our heads and down onto paper.

What's getting you down this hump day?

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Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge.

Cor, last week aye. What went wrong there?

First the thing with the whatsit. Then the other one broke down. Don't even get me started on Daves antics. Phew...

What do you all think. What's had you bellyaching this week?

Welcome to Wednesday Whinge.

A place for us all come together and get some stuff off our collective chest.

Fun fact; a grumble is the name for a group of Pugs. So what's had you grumbling this week?

Welcome to the Wedneaday Whinge.

A place for all the smaller issues that didn't make it into their own post, a chance to get it all off your chest.

Come and share your woes, its cathartic!

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge. A chance for us all get anything off our chest, no matter how small.

It’s cathartic!

What’s had you boiling over this week?

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge. A chance for us all get anything off our chest, no matter how small.

It’s cathartic!

What’s had you boiling over this week?

I also miss those clever rotating ticket spinners, it meant I could move on before any slight personal relationship could be formed

On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it's a thing

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge. A chance for us all get anything off our chest, no matter how small.

It’s cathartic!

What’s made you blow your top this week?

Welcome to the Wednesday Whinge. A chance for us all get anything off our chest, no matter how small.

It’s cathartic!

What's got your eye twitching this week?

Just went to the Met Office website to see what the weather is going to do for the next few days here in "the except the North and West". Right at the top of the page...banner ad from Royal Mail for Christmas deliveries! It's not even mid-July!