News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand.
Nexstar Inc.Serious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 24 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 510.2.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 510.2.0, updated 2026-10-05.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
News has never been more local than in the palm of your hand. The WSYR mobile app brings you all the top stories from our daily broadcasts, as well as stories developing in real time.
Get news updates in the palm of your hand. The WSYR NewsChannel 9 mobile app brings you the day's top stories. Stay up to date with breaking news for all of Central New York. Get the area's Most Accurate Forecast from the NewsChannel 9 Storm Team to help you plan your day. You can sign up for optional alerts on breaking news to keep you in the know. If you're on the go, you can save stories for later access at your convenience.
FEATURES:
• Watch video of your trusted reporters on the scene, and read revealing articles on what's going on in your community.
• Plan your day and week with detailed weather reports, live alerts of severe conditions, and an interactive radar map.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 3 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, Google Mobile Ads (AdMob / Ad Manager), Meta Audience Network
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:e6f4b9c092e46f1a13f25466d571419a36c935d1c5ec40e360309513dd771df2Aggressive ad load: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 50 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
The app's own text says: "Max number of profiles already created. Please delete one of the profiles to be able to add a new one."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:e6f4b9c092e46f1a13f25466d571419a36c935d1c5ec40e360309513dd771df2The app's own text says: "View the ad you saved when you were offline"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:e6f4b9c092e46f1a13f25466d571419a36c935d1c5ec40e360309513dd771df2400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
A few ads at the bottom of the screen were fine. Then all of a sudden one day changing articles, pop up ads for games to download. I sent them an email telling them I'd hate to find a better app, they responded letting me know they would…
Text doesn't load, too many ads! Edited 2/27/2024- This app gets worse and worse. Whatever "bugs" were fixed with the recent update are causing the app to crash. Unable to read the news stories.
Stupid, full-page pop-up ads! I was begrudgingly used to out of date news, but the ads have made this app totally worthless. I did like what i could see of the new layout before the stupid ad with the jerk in a spa trying to sell me car…
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 510.2.0, scanned 24 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 510.2.0 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-24 .
The store currently lists version 510.2.0, updated 2026-10-05.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
wsyr-newschannel-9-localsyrAssessed 2026-10-24 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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