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                1. I've seen this on a few local news sites lately, presenting traditional coupon-cutter's print insert as a prestitial
                  oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                To drop a multi-page print ad product, w/no changes, on screen is the one of the dumbest, least well intentioned, awful ideas by a publisher
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              Surely everyone who works on the web side (I've seen it on a number of "USA Today Network" sites) understands no web user will use this?
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            You could have a coupons section that people could go to in the nav, that would make some sense, but just dumping print to a prestitial?
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          It reeks of false fulfillment for local advertisers who don't know better. It's embarrassing to the papers involved and it is lazy.
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        Even cutting the circular into chunks in Photoshop would have been a better UX, & less opposition to the entire way people use the web.
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      In case you were wondering, that ad comes to you through an entire company whose gig is to digitize circulars: flipp.com/flyers?postal_code=11222&locale=en
      OpenGraph image for flipp.com/flyers?postal_code=11222&locale=en
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    Also: *You can't even print the circulars or 'clippings' out!* The company links them to ordering via web pages. So not even true local.
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      Some days you look at how the media monetizes and it is 1 step forward 200 steps back.
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