Suddenly you appear behind them
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Perhaps you are familiar with, and certainly disregard, articles with utterly distasteful titles like
"XYZ should read this"
"XYZ will shock you"
"XYZ is so on!" (fashion)
"XYZ you should know"
Well, I ask you to imagine you the ability to discreetly go into the home of a publisher and sneak behind them, if you could, and you knew what time they were going to publish another merely pathetic artice, would you exact torment, or discussion? If either, how would you go about it?
P.s, is this whole trend of articles poignant to you?
"XYZ should read this"
"XYZ will shock you"
"XYZ is so on!" (fashion)
"XYZ you should know"
Well, I ask you to imagine you the ability to discreetly go into the home of a publisher and sneak behind them, if you could, and you knew what time they were going to publish another merely pathetic artice, would you exact torment, or discussion? If either, how would you go about it?
P.s, is this whole trend of articles poignant to you?
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"This programmer has the power to teleport behind people as they're writing click-baity titles. You won't believe what he does with it!"
And in the thumbnail: "Trashy online publishers hate him!"
PS: "Featured" article at the bottom: "This useless piece of consumerist trash is all the rage in SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE!"
And in the thumbnail: "Trashy online publishers hate him!"
PS: "Featured" article at the bottom: "This useless piece of consumerist trash is all the rage in SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE!"
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Helios - LOLL!
I wouldn't do anything. They simply do what they do because the more people click the more money they make from ad revenue. As long as money rolls in, they aren't going to stop.
I wouldn't do anything. They simply do what they do because the more people click the more money they make from ad revenue. As long as money rolls in, they aren't going to stop.
View page source often shows the whole article or a link to it that can avoid the click bait. Similar,
a "news" (opinions mostly, kernels of news on rare occasions) major paper has lately teamed with google to get its "news" on the front page but you can't read it without paying (you get to see 2-3 lines the rest is blocked). Opening the page source shows the whole content, though :)
You can judge the validity of anything by the ads the company allows and style of content. if its broken into 40 pages with a couple of lines on each page and the rest of the page full of ads, its probably not going to be factual content or useful content. If the ads at the bottom of the page are for things like 'find out anything about anyone here' or 'fad diet of the week' etc.... its probably not useful content. Ads help a lot these days in judging the quality of the content...
a "news" (opinions mostly, kernels of news on rare occasions) major paper has lately teamed with google to get its "news" on the front page but you can't read it without paying (you get to see 2-3 lines the rest is blocked). Opening the page source shows the whole content, though :)
You can judge the validity of anything by the ads the company allows and style of content. if its broken into 40 pages with a couple of lines on each page and the rest of the page full of ads, its probably not going to be factual content or useful content. If the ads at the bottom of the page are for things like 'find out anything about anyone here' or 'fad diet of the week' etc.... its probably not useful content. Ads help a lot these days in judging the quality of the content...
| View page source often shows the whole article or a link to it that can avoid the click bait. |
* Pages that ask to turn off ad blocking.
* Pages with annoying pop-ups or scripting, or otherwise distracting secondary elements.
* Pages that let you scroll down a bit and then ask for a login.
* Pages with unreadable text (too tiny, too low weight, too low contrast).
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