Not just with this app, but all apps with Google (or any company) ads, I keep getting risqué or sexually-suggestive ads! It's worthless to click on the "x," click on "report the ad," mark as inappropriate, or any other selection! This yields a message that says, "We'll try not to show this ad again." The operative word is "try," which is a weak attempt by advertisers to weasel their way out of abiding by requests not to see their ads! I always get the same ads that I report!
As a cord cutter, I rarely watch live TV anymore and rely on apps like these for my local news. What bothers me is the placement of all of the ads on each page that are made to look like news articles. What is worse is that most are straight-up dishonest, spam or inappropriate. For example, one ad said “New Affordable Housing in Midland is Turning Heads”. You click on it and not only does it have nothing to do with Midland, it had even less to do with affordable housing. It was a spam link page that took you to other spam link pages. Most ads have scantly clad women or other non-family friendly content. I think the ad provider is “Outbrain”. Consider real local ads that matter to us and not just spammy crap that makes y’all look like you fell for a Nigerian Phone scam from a shady developer that just threw your RSS feed in a spam bot template. PLEASE, use your own app and PLEASE be honest and recognize that the crap ads and spam on each page do not represent your news station in a positive light. I would be embarrassed.
I actually like your app. It is simple and direct. I do at times find the story may have been posted without using a tool for spellcheck etc., to find mistakes. The biggest frustration I see is your lack of ability for comments to be posted about a story, Your agency is timely with stories and events, but you fail at engaging in the feedback of your community. Please consider adding this option. 4 Stars, only due to the lack of comments available and grammar is atrocious.
I have been using the app for a couple of years. This is a news app, so I assume it should not be political. Right now there is a pro-Trump link over several parts of each page. I will stop using the app, going to Ch 3, until you remove partisan ads.
I like this app, however, I am very close to deleting due to UNWANTED notifications. My settings for "notifications" are set to receive "Breaking News" and "Weather Alerts" ONLY, but I am still getting "Happening Today" notifications. I require VITAL information ONLY, not the annoyance of looking at my watch only to see a "Happening Today" notice. So what's up with giving the illusion of allowing personalized configuration of notification preferences????
I am so sick of the AIM bank ad. It stays on too long. The other ads are the same junk ads that are all over Yahoo News and the stories have nothing to do with the title of the ad. I don't understand how the reporters got their job. The grammar is somewhere on the elementary level. How did they even graduate high school? The lack of vocabulary skills and poor spelling make me cringe. Very unprofessional app. Two stars for attempting to get the news out to the public.
The app should be changed to “CBS7 History” Whoever is in charge of updating the news on this app either has a lot of days off or is just lazy. If you want 1-2 day old news...the app is great. If you don’t want updates on the weekend... get the app. If you see a fire and wonder what happened.... wait a week and you just might see it on this app.
While Ch 7 is fast to report breaking news, the site is are to navigate and the stories are covered in ads. Not only are there multiple ads, they are spam or phishing ads. Very irritating.
Inappropriate spam ads. Do we really need to see ads scattered throughout the news articles of women in disgusting poses or ads that do not pertain to anything concerning our area?? Shame on you!! This is supposed to be a news website. If you need to advertise, please advertise local businesses or realistic wares that readers might need or use.
You would think that this app would be convenient for someone who doesn’t have social media but it’s NOT. runs very slow & freezes in the middle of an article. Constantly having to refresh!!!
Please get rid of the stupid ads. I would pay for an ad free app as I have done with other apps. On a breaking news story I’ll swipe and the story is about 5 stories down, not the first one popping up.
I used the app for news, but now you have to watch seemingly endless commercials before you get to their teaser stories. Not worth it. Deleting it today.
The app is more adds than news. That's why I left channel 2. Now it has adds an old person can't figure out how to bypass. Good by. Headed to channel 9. This is junk.
Not all users of this app live in Midland or Odessa. We want to know "school closures" in our rural schools also, schools like Grady ISD, Rankin, Kermit, Monahans, Ackerly Sands, Klondike, and many others. CBS7 includes these smaller schools in Sports, and school closures on TV, why not the iPhone app?
What's the deal with the pop up add "aim bank". Pops up all the time can't close it. If I want adds I'll watch the nightly news. Lose the ads or you'll lose me
This is not a good app don’t update on weekends and sometimes doesn’t update not like the other sorry app we’ll not recommend it to my dog or cat waste of time.
The app is wonderful! The only thing that bothers me is all of the pop up advertising. Please fix! Otherwise, the app is amazing! Will be referring to my family and friends!
I wanted to love this app. I moved from the area and use it to keep up with what’s happening in the Permian Basin... at a very slow pace. However, it’s really frustrating to click on a story just to get a “404 / page not found” error code. The person or persons who types up stories for the app often has misspelled words and very poor grammar (unless that’s how the anchors are speaking these days). Sometimes, it will be three days before there is any new content added. Is there really nothing new in the news for three full days? Or does CBS7 only have one person updating the app that doesn’t work weekends or holidays?
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