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Heh yeah, I saw that after I posted... should have looked harder, but it was 5 AM and I wanted to go to sleep.

It started off pretty bad just because their tech wasn't very good, but then it seemed to be getting better as they ditched their flash based reader for HTML. Now they just seem to be actively user-hostile in the name of growing the number of app installs. Naked user coercion is much less forgivable than just sucking.




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