Healthline Reviews 191

shouldnt be top on google if you cant read without allowing intrusive cookies

For a website that offers "medical" advice it is disgusting to see that they frame their users as entitled and distant from reality when they want to insist on their basic right of privacy.

When users reject the cookies (personal data offerings) that the website asks for, it responds with a page that can only be seen as a sly and backhanded remark. Healthline did not manage to setup their business model in a way that does not rely on making money of their users private information and tries to make their users feel guilty when they don't agree to be subject to that kind of predatory behavior.

What is most worrying is the fact that this website could be used by people in emergency situations - desperately looking for a remedy or emergency treatment only to be faced with a choice: Give up Privacy or Risk serious bodily harm/death.

This behavior is a loop-hole against laws protecting privacy in EU-Countries (among others) and would otherwise face a penalty in the millions or the blocking of the website across the EU-Member countries.

For any Europeans reading this i strongly recommend to do as i did and contact your respective MEP to bring this to their attention. Users have the power to stop this kind of behavior, all it takes is a few phone calls.

Health line puts out false information that magnetic therapy helps pain, depression, etc. This is a. non-scientific site without showing evidence.I am disappointed In this site and I think their license to
write articles should be removed. It is such a scam.

By not allowing full access to content, until we allow full access to their plethora of cookies, this website is breaking UK and EU law. High time the money-grubbing owners were prosecuted: for a self-styled health portal this is disgraceful behaviour, rendering the site useless unless we cede them all our data.

Won't alow use of the site unless you accept cookies, rubbish site.

Pathetic, really pathetic. Articles are a bunch of cut and paste which contradicts themselves WITHIN THE SAME ARTICLE!!! Example, first they say that sweating does not burn many calories but then later in the article they recommend to sweat in order to burn more calories.... please, at least have someone read the articles before publishing....

If i search anything from default browser search (likely google) this site always pops up but it blocks all access with no option to select or deselect cookies, tracking etc, on safari ios i cant even get to the push buttons to select anything so they have such bad coding it wont even render properly I refuse with prejudice to go any further with this joke site they should not be allowed to be so obstructive to users especially for potentially important health matters

No privacy protection / can't access without advertisers snooping around your most sensitive issues.

Can't use the sight privately, have to give them access to your data to see anything

I found the site via a search to look up about nutrients in a specific product. After being taken to the "this site uses cookies" page and disabling all of them, I got a completely different page and was not able to read the article I wanted.

Why would you need to know anything about me to display the contents of a page which should be purely informational?

I do not need the information of what I am looking up sold to third parties so I can see these products being advertised to me when I'm somewhere else totally. That is exactly what GDPR is intended to prevent. Or at least, it should be.

Poorly constructed site, not tested for use with android, falls at the 1st hurdle with cookie acceptance page buttons don't show until you rotate device to portrait, then only just on edge of page!
Until this is corrected don't bother using it!

Website forces to to accept cookies. Somehow is always top of Google, seems unhelpful

You can't claim yourself a scientific website when your vocabulary isn't. If you can't define a woman, how can you treat her? Instead they're using stupid words like people with vagina, front hole for vagina...

Avoid any service or institution that is based in California or Canada for future inquiries, if you're looking for real and scientific advises and infos.

I have seen a number of sexist articles sexually objectifying women on this website. Articles about "increasing your breast size naturally" and "how to get perky breasts" is disgustingly misogynistic. Healthline perpetuates harmful messages to women about their bodies which ultimately harms women's mental health. There are no equivalent articles sexually objectifying men's chests in this manner. It is out and out discrimination and reduces women to sex objects which is incredibly depressing.

Should be called Pharmaline and not Healthline. So much woke crap in your articles!! All you support is "science" that's paid for by pharma and big corporations, including those that support woke ideologies. It's sickening (the opposite of what the name of your website suggests!!).

Don't provide a ad free tracking free version of the site..

Healthine articles on HPV updated 15 March 2021 refer to men as men in the article regarding men and then in the article regarding women, refer to women as " vulva owners" and not as women/female.

Healthline doesn't let you deselect cookies even though it starts out giving you option. I don't trust a website that engages in this tricky so I just bypass them. The CEO is a music professor- nice but not the best for a healthline. Bottom line don't trust's paid for by advertising companies. There are plenty of other places to go. Check out the Zoe health podcasts - no adverts.

They say that GERD is a curable disease (yet then say that if a person ceases to do the hellish strict lifestyle changes and to take the poisonous meds, it returns). GERD is always dismissed, yet it is an incurable, painful disease that reduces the quality of life a lot. They have a very strange notion of "cure".