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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by rhacker on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:32PM (#18416667)
It's sad but many companies have tunnel vision - probably getting thousands of reports of people complaining of this. Unfortunately they think, for whatever reason, those are all outliers. It takes a good scathing top-rated post on HN to let them see. I'm sure a developer at Yelp that has been complaining to management for years is going to take this thread and show someone that can change it.

But I think it's too late.

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Re:Yelp craters 30% as advertisers abandon the site by askar_yu on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:44PM (#18418302)
Exactly. One of my favourite apps, Quora, also did it some time ago (may be they still do) - forcing you to install the app if you're browsing them on mobile. I remember being shocked - shocked because while this (horrible) practice became a common thing, I'd always though of Quora highly, and assumed they'd never do something silly like that, but no, they'd disappointed.
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