The Mercury News for Mobile Reviews

Don't bother

Weezleheadjr

Ads. Ads everywhere. Accidentally tap things and makes the experience horrible.

Ads and subscription

July15062015

Subscription required after you brows 20+ articles. Ads are everywhere! This app looks like a webpage from 90s.

Don't bother with this app unless you have a subscription. I browsed it for the first 15 minutes after downloading, but now I'm prompted to log in to my "press plus" account before I can read anything else. Promptly deleted.

Totally worthless after update

CB-San Jose

Used to be my favorite news app. I have online Mercury News subscription, but cannot access any local news without registering and allowing a 3rd party to control my subscription. DELETED!

Very nice app

Donkenschleimer

I am a hard grader so three stars it is. But this app is great, intuitive and nice to use.

Really awful

Chuckji

Every time you open the app, a popup window says there is an update, but this is the latest version. Often pops up a message saying new content is available and the user has to tap the refresh icon. I think a computer should be capable of handling that without input from me. Many of the comics aren't getting updated or just prevent the spinning wheel of death.

Keeps getting worse

dan95126

I’m a paid subscriber and yet have to put up with ads. The latest version seems to crash while it loads the ridiculous ads that NO ONE would every click on. To make things worse, they’ve taken a page from Apple’s new interface guidelines and have made the article fonts so grey and thin that they are simply impossible for any senior to read. And I don’t even need reading glasses. I’ve deleted it as a news reader is really not useful if you can’t read it. And I’m close to cancelling by paper delivery subscription. Think I’ll do that today. It’s a complete embarrassment of an app for a company in the Silicon Valley.

Underwhelming

Shredded Thumb

Way below what you'd expect from the leading daily newspaper in the heart of Silicon Valley. "Top Stories" seems to be a random collection of articles for which I have no interest or input. Even with Location Services enabled, the local news isn't focused (when I'm at home) on our locality, as the paper edition offers. Due to limited "real estate" mobile apps cannot display as much data as web-based apps. But each section's top stories in this app (local, business, sports), there's a dearth of content. If I compare this to the NY Times mobile app, well, no comparison.

Ridiculous

Hung Lowe

The constant pop ups and advertising are absolutely ridiculous. Reading a single article becomes almost impossible. It's a shame too, I really enjoy this newspaper.

Getting worse over time

sphns

I pay for the paper, but logging in has no effect on the barrage of ads. Worse, it will pre-roll video with audio with no option to turn it off.

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