I will discontinue the use of AOL if I have to constantly chase the "next bar" around the screen.
Stop using my bandwidth to post these exceedingly extreme advertisements. I will stop using AOL and use a more friendly service. I pay for this service and should not be subjected to the advertisements. You go so far as to make me chase the next bar around the screen.
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Richard Allen commented
When reading an article in your News platform, why should a customer have to forward click page after page to finally read the article. It's time consuming and I no longer waste my time reading through it. It is totally useless!
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Anonymous
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I'm done trying to read your stories. I am sick and tired of trying to read one when every paragraph requires me to click through your senseless ads that jump around hoping I will accidentally click on one so you will get paid for posting it.
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Don Rose
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Do away with this "Next Page" ****, and just list the entire article!!!!
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pangie1@aol.com
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There are a lot of eye catching stories but by the time I get to the 8th next I say forget it who cares.
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pangie1@aol.com
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Get rid of Next , Next ,Next!!!!
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ROBERT DOW
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QUIT MAKING ME READ 50 PAGES ON ONE ARTICLE SO YOU CAN GET YOU ADVERTISEMENTS IN!! YOU WOULD THINK THE AMOUNT I PAY, ALONG WITH OTHERS WOULD ALLOW YOU TO PRINT AN ARTICLE WITHOUT THIS.
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Anonymous
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I'm curious why you have an article about interesting things and have to fight the D**m ads to even click next. Why cant you just print the article on 1 page........ I've wquit trying to read an article with 4 lines and have to click next if you can get past the ads! Just another irratating feature of "new and improved AOL" .........NOT
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Anonymous
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Get to the point on your topics. I won't look at them any more because you drag out the answer for 20 "NEXT" pages. Go o the answer on the next page when opening. It is a very bad design web site. I like all else about AOL or I wouldn't pay for it.
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arnold huntington
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I just love it when I'm following a story (on and on) then hit NEXT and it jumps, just as I press, it goes to one of your paid advertisers
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Ken
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I rarely now complete reading an article once I see "Start Slide Show" on it. Screen is flooded with ads that hop around. I click on Next, and right before I do, an ad comes in its place, and I'm sent to ad site. You also fill with so much fluff and unnecessary verbage - like a student struggling to reach minimum # pages in essay.
MY IDEA: change Slide Shows to continuous scrolling, with the ads on the sides. You get the ads showing and I don't have to dodge them and I can quickly read your article. (I sent in this idea a few weeks ago. I think if you would try this for a month you would get a great deal of Positive feedback.)
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Anonymous
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Your equity mirror site like so many of your sites is literally rediculous. You can get old just try to go through dozens of pages of nothing that has to do with the headline.
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Anonymous
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I have been trying to read the series on the archaeologist, but every time I hit "next page," I get a damned ad.
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Gaile S.
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Get rid of these stupid, mindless posts by making one click 20 'next page' bars to get to the end. After the first 3 I conclude this is not about the story but about AOL selling ads.
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Anonymous
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I absolutely can not stand the articles going to next page and next page. Those are so frustrating that I do not read them now. I am sure it is about getting ad money, but I go elsewhere to read news now. Please stop this.
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Anonymous
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GET RID OF NEXT BAR it is not a good idea and I never finish a story. I hope you advertisers realize how annoying it is for the readers
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Anonymous
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I wrote some long time ago in regards to more interesting topics. You now have usually 81 articles. Many duplicates or Old News topics that keep showing up. In some cases, I don't mind it. What really gets the desire to read the article or not is if it gets to the point sooner then later. Problem is: Of these 81 Stories, some boring, some not, they all have one or several things in common. First you have to keep clicking on next page constantly to read the next paragraph. It is time consuming and frustrating to say the least. It takes away from the joy of reading the article in the first place. Then, instead of getting to the point and subject of what the article is supposed to be about, it Rambles on and on, about something entirely different, and usually states, (We'll get back to that later ( the Subject of the Article), stating : but first we have to give you an hour of history on it. (my words) but it seems like an hour of on and on about the subject matter Title and THE Results and Conclusion of the story before you LOOSE interest and don't care any more, and Click Out of the article time and again because of this.
SUGGESTION: Make the Story Article's interesting to the point, Brief and not Ongoing over and over and Keep them On Focus On track and don't Detour always from the Main Subject that caught one's Attention to want to read the article. It is a Huge Turn Off, when the Article is nothing to do with the Title and then it rambles on and on about something other things not totally related or not answering the curiosity of the reader, BUT (KILLING IT) FOR THE READER. Then reading doesn't want to Continually having to Click next to read another small paragraph. The Reader wants to read it all at once and what it is about quickly and doesn't have all day. So, to remedy these Problems, and address them as I suggested with a new idea, would work better for All Readers. I bet others feel the same, but just haven't said so, I finally said so, for me and those who have not. Please make it fun and interesting to read your articles Fast and Easy and To the Point already. Writers of Articles are getting Unfocused and going beyond what they think they have to. Quick to the point interesting articles is the way to go and Stay on Subject do not Detour often or at all, and not ramble on and on later. Stay and Finish the Trip you started out with. Writers are getting Way off the Path of keeping the Reader"s Interest alive and well. Thank You, and Hope this helps. Hope this remedy will be put in practice real soon. No having to click on Next page over and over again would be a Start in the right direction too. A God Send against Frustration to read the article and quickly to the point. -
Barb
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AOL gets worse every day. Lots of news to greet you AFTER you scroll scroll scroll...next next next next....you have more ads than news and quite disgusting. I have been an AOL user since the little itsy bitsy Mac was invented not to mention the many PCs thereafter. If I didn't have so much info stored I would delete today. Instead, will print out all saved infrormation ( a good and only thing about AOL right now EXCEPT I do think you have a great scam protector without having to buy one. Please fellow users, no email back to me. I see your thoughts and have too much email to plow thru more...Thanks and appreciation in advance.
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Anonymous
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It is very time consuming to read a story a little at a time by hitting the next tab - enough ads - you have great headlines but very few people have the time to sit and read thru them. Would be nice if you would change the format.
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Anonymous
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There's enough fake news from CNN, MSMBC, NY Times, etc. AOL doesn't need to pile on and charge customers for what used to be a free, relatively unbiased service. Good riddance.
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Sensi
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Eliminate Boredom Therapy, and all the others like them. Their only purpose is to circumvent ad blockers and pop-up blocker software by providing 2 or 3 sentences and trivial minutiae of a story and then requiring reader to click "Next" constantly to be inundated with ads. It might be a cleaver way to sell site listings to advertisers, but personally and from comments I see online, no users appreciate this ploy,