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0 pointssirwhinesalot7mo ago0 comments

That's because you're looking at it from the perspective of what the developers of those news websites want, rather than what the users of those news websites want.

The users want to get a document, not an app. That's what the web was made for, documents.

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Jarwain7mo ago

The users want to read an article, I'm not sure the average user really cares if it's delivered as a document or an app

teddyh7mo ago

Users do want to find the article via a search engine, and the search engine does prefer the article to be a document, rather than an app.

skeezyboy7mo ago

he make a de good point

squidbeak7mo ago

The user minds when the app gets in the way of the document.

croes7mo ago

Those apps were the article is hidden between ads and newsletter/subscription pop-ups?

The apps are mire likely used to hinder ad blockers than benefit the reader.

What feature of an article needs an app?

yoz-y7mo ago

As a user I want to be able to save the page and read it later.

Admittedly even with .war format and other attempts, this was possible only for a brief time. Now we have a crop of readability converters because even print to pdf is useless most of the time.

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