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Up until now Reuters has had some of the most shockingly invasive banner ads I've ever seen, exploiting every CSS and Javascript trick in the book to force its ads (quite successfully) past all major ad blockers.

They'll have to compete with AP News, which remains free at https://apnews.com, and has a much nicer site.

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AP News has been my go-to source for the last year or so. But over that time I've noticed it seems to be down or not handing requests properly a staggering amount of time.

AP News is the gold standard. If AP News get allured by investors, we're done folks. It's a wrap, let's go home. Journalism would be dead. Please put a donate button. I am happy to chip in $50 year to keep this thing alive.

Anyone execs here working at AWS, Azure or GCP? Can we get AP News some decent hosting, yall?

Edit: Apparently, they're adtech: https://www.ap.org/en-us/services/advertise-with-us

The AP is a newswire that sells its feed to newspapers. The best way to support it is by subscribing to a newspaper.

I’m not so sure. I think AP itself is subject to the same institutional capture and biases that have swept the rest of the journalism industry. You can see the cracks in their “gold standard” in the All Sides article about how they rated them (still Center but with reservations): https://www.allsides.com/blog/updated-media-bias-ratings-ass...

You can also see AP’s bias in their stylebook and guidelines on how to describe certain events - for example when do they use the word “riot” instead of “protest” or when should they label something as a “crisis”. The creeping bias at AP has been covered a few different times by other news outlets - here’s a random article I pulled from Google on the same: https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/aps-orwellian-push-to-change-t...

Many of us have been warning of these stylebook changes for years. They've been making them quite regularly, and usually serve to set major biases in the initial framing of a subject.

I find AP news somewhat biased compared to Reuters, although still one of my few regular sources. But I think their website issues stemmed from using google amp. They appear to have been fixed in the last month or so.

AP News has no RSS feed.

Aljazeera English on the other hand has almost the same content than Reuters (like literally, exact same articles), has RSS feed, and also has interesting news about Africa, Asia and Middle East.

> Up until now Reuters has had some of the most shockingly invasive banner ads I've ever seen, exploiting every CSS and Javascript trick in the book to force its ads (quite successfully) past all major ad blockers.

I’ve never seen an ad on Reuters. I’d call uBo and uMatrix pretty major.

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