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The tile on the homescreen (like many other apps) has a red circle with a number in it showing you your number of notifications. However, UNLIKE most other apps, opening the program to see these notifications immediately shows you a giant ad, followed essentially by “Go fish”! There is no easy way to specifically see these notifications. Update Aug. 13, 2021: tfyoder1’s review was a year ago, mine slightly newer. However after a year, NOTHING has been done to correct this behavior and bring the app inline with most others. Reiterating what I said above, the app is quick to throw up a (literal) red flag, then show you nothing but ads. Going to notifications doesn’t help; you still play “Go fish”. I’m lowering my rating and I’m about to delete this “Cry Wolf” app.

This app truly deserves zeros stars for its watch live and notifications. The watch live is based on a browser and I constantly have to refresh it to get it working - it does not seem to play nice with iOS. The commercials will also come on at random times and then I will need to refresh again to get the live content, if I am able to at all. Traffic notifications will also not bring up any content if you click on them. It will bring you into their app to the traffic page, but there will be be mention of the accident/incident they notify you on. The notifications are worthless since there is a line limitation and their message gets cut off.

Yep, just like everyone else, this app is horrible. I can’t even get to the news stories because it’s behind a video ad that won’t close, after it plays, if you tap anywhere in the top 1/3 of the screen to try and access the “top stories” link under the ad, the ad just replays over and over. Think about that… more effort went into making sure the app works for advertising than the effort needed to simply bring you the news. That should tell you where they’re priorities are. Deleting the app as soon as I post this. Bye Felicia, you greedy girl.