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I have been following the Guardian for millennia, but then I was faced with a certain number of articles then I was blocked unless I joined Guardian. I always thought news was open to all, and now Guardian I’d trying to ram their politics down my throat. If you want members ok then ask, but people should have a choice to join or not and with out penalty, fault, or fear of loss of access. If the Guardian suggests “…it is take or leave it..” then Guardian you are deleted, and permanently just like I did with Reuters.

Im a paid subscriber, but seems very hard to get app to know that. Its glitchy. Ads dont stay in their places. Have to reboot app too often. Running on newer ipad pro with updated os. Wish id kept the print version. Way better.

Always fair and balanced, inhabiting the grey area of these currently divided political conversations.

Update: I’ve kept a subscription going to support one of the few non-rubbish news sources, but it seems they will prioritise customer profiling and the generation of marketing intelligence in their cash flow model so maybe they don’t need subscribers. I’m not convinced I will remain one when I have to sign in. Frequently. And it seems, if you use your apple account to sign in, Apple will share some information with the Guardian, not exactly something declared up-front. The Guardian will send you floods of email, relayed through apple so they're harder to kill file, and there’s no way in the app to deselect that. You can go to their website, and supposedly sign in with your apple account, but it’s unclear if that just shares more information with The Guardian, and whether there will be a way of unsubscribing. (There’s an unsubscribe button in the email, but, again, goes to a place where you provide up-front data to them for the privilege of them not spamming you.) Considering all the ”Tell us …” questionnaires The Guardian typically has, it’s odd that there is no way to point out factual errors or statistical misleading statements in Guardian articles. I’d imagine this would be the sort of things they would be genuinely interested in catching, but I suppose it requires too many man-hours to go through. This is mostly on content, not the app itself, but you can’t really separate the two: The Guardian has started down the road of offering certain articles only as audio or video. I for one don’t want another TV channel, so from my perspective it's another nail in the subscription coffin. You can add video/podcast to your front page but you can’t block it. That’s needlessly obnoxious. Some of The Guardians journalists do not meet the general level, instead produce ranting opinion pieces. No objection to that, but it would be nice if you could select the content you’re actually interested in, as in opt out of the pieces you have a fair expectation of being sub-par. Well, I guess with a paper-edition you don’t have that option either (but you’re at least spared video and podcasts). Minor technical issue: the before-after swipe pictures (say, two pictures of the same place years between, with a divider down the centre, you can move to reveal more of either) don’t work on iOS. They just don’t. It should show us both pictures side-by-side instead of making presentation an impediment to the message. Also, it has a supremely annoying (cache) bug where it will show a completely different article than the one you clicked — it’s repeatable going back will again show you the headline of the one you wanted to read, but the link will take you to a different one, killing and restarting the app seems the only way to resync rendering and links. The Guardian is supposed to be a newspaper. With respect to cookies, the Guardian uses such a huge number of trackers that saying yes/no to them individually is basically impossible, the only reasonable approach is to reject them across the board. The Guardian is one of the two readable UK newspapers and the app is still vastly better than Apple News, so money sort of reasonably well spent, I suppose, though, I’m tempted by a non-subscriber life.

I love the guardian but the app often stutters and even completely freezes sometimes. I’m guessing that it’s just way too many pictures and maybe too many elements. I highly suggest/request that the developers look at the at The Atlantic app which has by far the best design or even the times. I don’t really care about pictures I’m much more interested in text delineation and fonts.

Now need to sign in to an account to track me in order to use the app? No thanks, app is now deleted.

Even though I am Irish, I love The Guardian!

I am contacting all new sources to have someone contact me. I am sorry just let them know I am here I have done everything I could to contact them

Copy-paste news from AP and Reuters and put them behind a huge paywall. Nice job! Capitalist greed at its best!

I downloaded the Guardian app recently to see how well it works and determine if the quality of both the app and the journalism was worth my time and financial support. Today I was presented an ultimatum, either share my personal info for data mining, ie: “curated ads and content” or not be allowed further use of the app. I have no problem with generalized ads or the requests for financial support but targeted ads is simply google like doublespeak for violating my privacy and selling my data and identity. It’s one thing for a predatory company like google to do reprehensible garbage like they do but a journalist organization that claims a higher standard? That’s a nonstarter for me.