get rid of Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha or at least give us an option
why can't we have a choice as to our newsfeed???
Gil Harris
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Dear Y! Finance readers,
This topic has generated a lot of interest and comments and we want to give you an update.
We are removing the ability to shortlist Finance News providers in order to overhaul and improve the experience. We look forward to introducing you to the new, expanded capability in the near future. We value your input, please continue to share your feedback with us. It is very useful for us while we discuss quality standards with our news provider.
Regards,
Y! Product Support
66 comments
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DdunRain
commented
Could you stop this stupid Motley, Seeking Alpha Wall street cheat etc. news on Yahoo. Its like a junk news. I have subscription to Wall Street Journal and Barrons but Yahoo has a best Finance portfolio. Please get rid of stupid Motley, Seeking Alpha Wall street cheat etc. and make more useful to readers.
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Mokanmikey
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I'm about to drop Yahoo as home page also, the Motley foo influence has become much to pervasive in the news feed and I'm sick of it
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PAPA V
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What does yahoo get paid to push Seeking Alpha garbage....must be enough to buy your integrity
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PAPA V
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Seeking alpha is just hacks blogging not news worthy at all. Why call it headlines, just make a junk blog section and stick SA and MF under that
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Anonymous
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when you click on the X on the homepage, i want the gd thing to give me the option of removing all stories from Motley Fool - NOT about Disney or Microsoft or whatever the **** the actual opinion piece was from. MOTLEY FOOL IS NOT NEWS - LET US FILTER IT THE SAME WAY WE CAN FILTER OUT EVERYTHING ELSE.
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CH
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**Feb 11, 2013**
...We are removing the ability to shortlist Finance News providers in order to overhaul and improve the experience...PLEASE, it has been 11 weeks, and now 90% of the "news" is the pollution from Motley Fool. For the love of God (and your own stock), please give us the option to kill Motley Fool!!!
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eb
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80% of my tech news article on my home page are garbage motley fool financial ads. its disgusting. I would love to be able to get actual tech news and not just anti microsoft/android pro apple BS fake news the fool pumps out to get subscribers for financial services. engadget, verge, mashable. get a real tech news provider!
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Geoff
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Dear Y! Product Support,
Your move was the opposite -- please *GIVE* us the option to HELP us overhaul and improve the experience. Are you in some cash contract with these poor quality bloggers that forces Yahoo! to force their **** upon us?
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bob
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get rid of motley fool. what are you waiting for?????
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Jeff Lewis
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I am moving to Google finance-- I'm sick of Motley Fool's over marketed garbage. It's like reading Cramer without the screaming but with the same agenda to keep you consuming a POV -- which is usually superficial and directed to selling subscription services. Adios after 15 years on Yahoo.
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Anonymous
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I am moving to google finance.
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StopItYahoo
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Starting to hate Yahoo because they are cramming stupid, dumb and bland Motley Fool down my pie hole. What is in it for Yahoo to have such a death grip on this junk stream? Is it worth your Rep, Yahoo? Just about done with you too.
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Shiva
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Hurry Up. I will stop using Yahoo as a way of getting news in the next month if the option to remove Motley Fool articles isn't provided to me.
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George
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Still waiting for this to happen. My newsfeed is full of garbage "Motley Fool CAPS" and "Seeking Alpha" articles written by unqualified college students.
I, like others here, prefer to read articles written by professional journalists with senior editors overseeing their efforts. Sources like AP, Reuters, Fortune, and Forbes are notable examples of this. Seeking Alpha and Motley Fool are not.
Yahoo! should study Google Finance and take a cue off of their newsfeeds, which are much better. I am about ready to port my stock listings over.
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Anonymous
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RE IMPROVING THE EXPERIENCE
Make it fast - Motley Fool pains me!
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Ad lee
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Please give use an option to get rid of Motley Fool and Seeking Alpha.
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joe
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SEEKING ALPHA PROVIDES A SERVICE, MOTLEY CREW DOESN'T
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Anonymous
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I agree - I do not want to receive anything from Jim Crammer or Motley fool. How can we opt out? maybe give us a choice?
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W
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I pity the fool who reads Motley Fool.
It's not even journalism. In fact, it's so annoying having to double-check the content provider before I click on an article that I'd rather just switch news sources.
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AggGrow
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Does 'shortlist' mean remove or selelect/deselect? Didn't Yahoo used to give users control over the newsfeeds that they subscribe to? Isn't it brain-dead simple to allow a user to configure their feeds (A simple checklist and filter with a tiny increase in the size of the user data record)? Does 'improve the experience' mean limit options?
I can imagine some people would actually like to read MF, and we need those people to dump our losers onto. But I personally would prefer uncurated news in my newsfeed. Yahoo, do you think you might be able to provide news in the newsfeed and not curate it on my behalf?
I know it's free and I really appreciate Yahoo Finance. Please remain relevant and useful.
