My official announcement: I am boycotting Huffington Post, for good. (Updated)

[Archae]

For these reasons, I no longer will EVER go to a Huffer Post link, anymore.

1. Huffington Post brass screw their writers.

2. The page takes too long to load, when it actually DOES load.
I just tried reading an article there, and my anti-virus blocked THREE attempts at shoving malware/adware/viruses into my computer.
After the page stopped dead the third time, I gave up.

3. Huffington Post is a unabashed advocate for the worst quacks.
Anti-vaxxers, dubious (at best) "treatments," if a quack advocates it, Huffington Post will run it.
And not be critical of it either.

Update: Adding an article from the "Encyclopedia of Americans Loons."

http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2013/11/780-arianna-huffington.html

[alp227]

1. THANK YOU! I am too!

For AP news articles, don't go there but rather:

http://bigstory.ap.org/

Good thing though is that Mike Malloy often provides an "audiobook" version of Huffpo on his show, so I think I gotta upload audio clips of those when he reads & comments on Huffpo articles.

[PumpkinAle]

3. Thanks for the link

I have been looking for an alternative to HP - which is also getting more trashy everyday.

I also like: http://www.theepochtimes.com/ for a different perspective.

[TheMathieu]

2. I boycott most of the new media. It's full of quacks and ideologues.

The only stories worth a damn on those sites are when they're directly quoting from a reputable mainstream source.

[pinboy3niner]

4. I'll alert the media

[quinnox]

5. Not me, I like the Huffington post

Do I go there on a regular basis? No, but I have seen good stories linked to them before, and I will read them then.

[alp227]

9. I get that. One of my fave Huff articles:

This article got a lot of recs when it was originally posted last summer: 10 things transphobes say that make me facepalm. Part of it excerpted at DU: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023524019

[HappyMe]

6. I've had trouble with the page loading thing

and virus alerts from them also. I don't bother clicking on a huffpo link anymore.

[MFM008]

7. I like it

I have never had any trouble with loading time or virus's.

[HuckleB]

8. It's definitely Woo Central!

That's why one has to question the rest of the content.

[NightWatcher]

10. Where else will you get your politics, nipple slips, and side boob shots?

It's the "Super walmart" of websites.

[Sheepshank]

11. Haven't like to Huff Po in over a year

...and have been surviving just fine.

Left it behind for all of your reasons and Arianna Huffington, who is just too annoying to support in any manner.

[hunter]

12. They don't like the way my browser is set up.

Their pages stall.

I guess it's because I like my privacy and don't accept cookies from strangers.

It was easier just to block them then to accidentally click on a page that went dead.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. The Beltway Media reads Drudge over morning coffee and then it's off to HP for the side boob action.

[alp227]

14. bumping for monday visibility nt