Awful, awful website for mobile. I was redirected three times before I reached the article page, which itself popped and reloaded a few times before I could read anything. Then three separate modal windows pestering me to subscribe or log in or sign up to the newsletter stopped me because they wouldn't close.
How have we fucked up the mobile web experience so much?
You know what? It's usually me thinking this about that kind of comment, but this one really is that bad. It's not that it's not optimized for mobile, it's like the site was optimized against mobile.
I couldn't have put it better. It's as if they're degrading the experience so you'll use some proprietary app. If I'd been prompted to visit the play store it would not have been a surprise
I understand your point and would agree in most cases. I am usually pretty forgiving of mobile popups, etc. However, in this case I gave up before even making it to the real article. I felt like I was in a loop of modals that wouldn't relent until I subscribed. Give it a shot and let me know if I am wrong.
And if it's not specifically the web devs for this site lurking, discouraging others from following the same path isn't bad.
I personally got two screen-filling pop ups on this site, the second of which was a survey before I was even able to browse. If anyone out there is considering doing this on your site, consider that I added this site to my growing list of filters and will never visit it again.
Although AMP has a lot of problems discussed often on this website, it seems adding /amp at the end of the URL fixes the problem.
(Also been trying this regularly on desktop as well to bypass the normal layout full of pop-ups and dark patterns. /amp is becoming a cheat code to get an old school light-weight page!)
How have we fucked up the mobile web experience so much?