Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

[Nicholas Scheuer]

My (whatever one calls it) in Internet Explorer. I read a lot of their news and cultural articles and find all of them badly written. Whole paragraphs seem tpo be just rewrites of the preceding pg. It takes forever for them to reach the point suggested by their title. Is this some sort of game designed to get us to notice more of the advertising? Guess what; it's not working. I NEVER read the ads. Any suggestions for something more satisfying than Explorer?

[Paul Pless]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

i thought microsoft pulled the plug on explorer years ago

[skuthorp]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

AI will learn over time……………….. Or maybe they should hire someone whose writing experience goes beyond twitter feeds……………….

[ron ll]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

If you are looking for a news aggregator, I like Flipboard. Although I admit I get lazy sometimes and scan Google News. But at least Google will list several sources for most stories.

[Ian McColgin]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

Read a good daily like New York Times, NPR, BBC, et cetera and some of the more fact conscious aggregators like Common Dreams. For deeper reading, try The Atlantic or the New Yorker.

[Paul Pless]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

^ maybe even deign to read the fiscally conservative leaning chicago tribune. . .

[Nicholas Scheuer]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

Not posting about hard news. For that I watch PBS Newshour daily, plus Chicago Tonight, both on Chicago's WTTW. I'm posting about the junk I wade through (is it the "browzer"? It does have an "E" logo) on my way to important stuff like the WoodenBoat Bilge. No way I'm reading the Chi Trib, though they often have a representative on WTTW's weekly review. BTW, wtf is Common Dreams? I'm way too busy with life involving tools for reading the Atlantic or the New Yorker.

[ron ll]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

Change the home page on your browser.

[elf]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

Yes. The point of most of that stuff is to get eyes on the ads. You don't even have to click on one to get a few cents into the coffers of the company advertising.

Download the NYT and WaPo apps on your phone and read your news that way. Or install and ad blocker into your browser and read them there.

[Jim Bow]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

Internet Explorer is a web browser, not a publisher.

[Durnik]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

as ron ll said.. change your startup/home page in IE to say forum.woodenboat.com.. or a list of common sites to choose from.. or perhaps even google.com/nyt (per elf) etc..

also as Paul P said, MS dropped IE years ago. tho I commend you for not going to Edge (their current pos), Firefox makes a fine open source browser. "www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/"

[ShorelineJohn]

Re: Internet Explorer's terribly written articles; on purpose?

The problem is that the human consciousness will see the whole page and the ads leave a mark in the brain. When an individual believes advertising does not work on them is when they have the most influence. One is better off reading every ad (which is almost impossible) just to bring it to the conscious mind.
What's even worse is my woodenboat ad at the bottom has gone back to the Temu crap. I did click on the Sailrite ads almost every time but it's gone back to portable bathtub and other Chinese crap. But the price did drop on the baseball hat with the goggles on the back.
The one that just makes me laugh every time is in my MSN news feed I get "Buy new Dodge Magnums", They haven't made a new one in 14 years.