Newsmax is garbage and they know it

[rpannier]

Their ads are everywhere trying to get you to go to their site
In some places the put Newsmax and in others they don't (as if they know people won't click to the site if they knew)

But in their ads that appear everywhere, seldom do they list news it's almost exclusively
1. A Poll. 'Who do you think won the debate?'
2.Quakery: There have been three that have been in their ad tray for months: A fat burner that is 'taking GNC by storm', a quick way to remove wrinkles and 'Doctors are furious at this (insert age 60+) grandmothers secret for looking half her age and their new quack 'a brain pill' that is used by... Dr Carson, Donald Trump, (insert politician, business type, etc)
3. How to pay off mortgages, credit card debts, bankers are mad at...
4. The Warren Buffet Indicator says the stock market is going to crash this year (they've been advertising that since '09)
5. 'Americans are urged to search their names before this site is taken down.' - Been up since 2011 (maybe earlier)

No news. Nothing even mildly newsworthy in that.
I'd like to know what is so max about their news other than max at fraudulently advertising themselves as a news

[Erose999]

1. Click bait. Sadly its the model for monetizing content for many sites, including DU. There's a pro

Keystone XL banner across my screen right now. There are also ads for miracle supplements, rip off reverse mortgages, and scam investments. It's sad that sites like The Nation, Mother Jones, the Atlantic, and DU etc put this kind of crap out there... even if it does make them money it also makes them part of the WOO machine.

[djean111]

2. I don't see any ads at all.

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

3. Ad Block+? [nt]

[djean111]

6. No, I am a star member - I can't contribute very much at all to DU, but I understand that it does

cost money to run. Same for all free sites - the money has to come from somewhere. Any site that has so many ads that I can barely read an article, though, I just leave and don't go back.

[kimbutgar]

4. And if you go to their site they put these awful cookies who send right wing ads

That are hard to get rid of. It took me two attempts of deleting of cookies and restarts on my computer to get rid of them.

[MineralMan]

5. Right wing clickbait site.

It's yet another site that should never be linked in a DU post.