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Butler County (West Chester or Liberty Township) had a fire around 11:30 on Sunday, Feb. 15. Nothing on the Fox19 news site. When you find the “Sections” carefully placed along the bottom of the screen, you get a menu along the left side. Please, go ahead, select “Butler County”. Then, look quickly because it is mere seconds and then the only image is all the ads. I took the Fox19 weather app off my phone for the same reason. I looked at ads, not news or weather. My advice is - select a different Cincinnati news feed app until there are vast improvements made to this Fox19News app. You will be much happier. Maybe, maybe, there will be improvements and the app will be useful. For now, not.

So, I submitted a review that was less than glowing. Curiously, it was removed without explanation. The end-user’s feedback, I believe, should be welcomed; it should be considered a public service. Something had to be said about the glut of digital rabbit holes one is met with after tapping the shiny, little icon. I mean, who could resist, right? And who doesn’t love a frying pan upside the head in the form of an unbelievably intrusive ad right out of the gate? “All news sites have ads”, you might surmise. Of course! But an ad before the reader even has time to select one of the many vacuous articles? That’s just plain silly. And don’t get me started on the minefield of bad grammar and odd (mis)use of punctuation. My cat is a better writer.

I’ve had this app for about two years with occasional upgrades, in my old and new phone with no problems. About two months ago it crashed, I’ve deleted, reloaded multiple times the past two and it still doesn’t work, will not open, even though it’s supposed to be an updated version. I give up, apparently it’s no longer compatible with iPhone.