It seems like nearly every regional newspaper website uses Reach. I swear that nobody who actually works at these places actually uses their own sites.
- Usually loaded with an insane number of “partners” on the cookie banner (I’ve seen some well into the thousands)
- You can’t read the content because the page keeps jumping about as it’s loading ads in
- Ads overlay the content with a close button so small that even a tardigrade would get pissed off over it
- Any scroll action on your phone that isn’t perfectly straight swipes you to the next article
- Because your device has to load 26TB of ads, it takes forever to go back to the previous article
- There’s an ad between each sentence.
They don’t use Reach; they are Reach. That’s the name of the company that owns them all (plus The Mirror, The Daily Express and The Star). That’s why they all have the same website.
Most of the ones that aren’t Reach are Newsquest. Their website is also pretty terrible, but at least it doesn’t do that annoying swipe/scroll thing that Reach does.
Sorry, but you appear to have made the same typo a few times.
It’s spelt Retch.
Hope that helps!
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