Speeding up your favorite Brum news website
March 22, 2016 11:14 AM Subscribe
The Birmingham Mail, a tabloid newspaper covering England's second city, has an 'online news portal' with a reputation for being a bit slow. Not to fear, Brummie news addicts! A Chrome Extension, announced by a local alternative media website, now usefully blocks some of that deeply annoying slowing-down-the-browser content. With data, they explain why.
I got a £4.50 premium text from my local newspaper (a Local World paper, not a Trinity Mirror one*) after I went to their website on my phone, and possibly pocket clicked on something. I was pretty angry. After contacting the premium service provider in question, I got a check back through the post refunding me, so I was happy enough in the end, because I only get corporate cheques very rarely, and they feel like lottery tickets to me, because what if they accidentally printed a number in the tens of millions column?.
Anyway, I pretty much 100% gave up on my local newspaper after too much sensationalist and apologetic coverage of sex crime and traffic crime. Shame, because it has a rich heritage, all the way back to the early 1600s, when Sir Edmund Blackadder refers to one of its reviews of a play.
*I think that those two sets of ownership and website formats account for 90% of the British newspaper market.
posted by ambrosen at 1:24 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Anyway, I pretty much 100% gave up on my local newspaper after too much sensationalist and apologetic coverage of sex crime and traffic crime. Shame, because it has a rich heritage, all the way back to the early 1600s, when Sir Edmund Blackadder refers to one of its reviews of a play.
*I think that those two sets of ownership and website formats account for 90% of the British newspaper market.
posted by ambrosen at 1:24 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
Bosting!
posted by Helga-woo at 4:05 PM on March 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Helga-woo at 4:05 PM on March 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
covering England's second city
I have never until now considered Chicagoans as "American Brummies", but it was an interesting thought experiment.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:57 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I have never until now considered Chicagoans as "American Brummies", but it was an interesting thought experiment.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 4:57 PM on March 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I have never until now considered Chicagoans as "American Brummies", but it was an interesting thought experiment.
I lived 7 years in Chicago, and I've been living in Brum since the beginning of this calendar year. They are very different populations, but what they have in common is being friendlier and having a better sense of humour about themselves than the people from the 'first' cities.
posted by LMGM at 5:00 PM on March 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
I lived 7 years in Chicago, and I've been living in Brum since the beginning of this calendar year. They are very different populations, but what they have in common is being friendlier and having a better sense of humour about themselves than the people from the 'first' cities.
posted by LMGM at 5:00 PM on March 22, 2016 [5 favorites]
I live near Birmingham and use the Birmingham Mail. Ad-block used to work on the website and speed it up a little, but now when you click on articles, it asks you to remove ad-block. :(
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 1:44 AM on March 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Ms. Moonlight at 1:44 AM on March 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
covering England's second city
ahem, Manchester is England's second city ;-)
posted by 13twelve at 3:51 AM on March 23, 2016
ahem, Manchester is England's second city ;-)
posted by 13twelve at 3:51 AM on March 23, 2016
but now when you click on articles, it asks you to remove ad-block. :(
There is a Greasemonkey script that, I am told, works to un-nag this nag.
posted by Mezentian at 4:43 AM on March 25, 2016
There is a Greasemonkey script that, I am told, works to un-nag this nag.
posted by Mezentian at 4:43 AM on March 25, 2016
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