With as much spyware garbage and paywall nonsense and other anti-reader practices as these media companies engage in, I’m really sympathetic to someone offended by being asked to click on the basis of “just trust us, the information we’re vaguely promising up here is somewhere in this article”
Unfortunately irrelevant. Sometimes information is dense, it happens. Clickbait is wasting people’s time at best, and intentionally misleading at worst. This headline (for a free article) is neither
With as much spyware garbage and paywall nonsense and other anti-reader practices as these media companies engage in, I’m really sympathetic to someone offended by being asked to click on the basis of “just trust us, the information we’re vaguely promising up here is somewhere in this article”
Unfortunately irrelevant. Sometimes information is dense, it happens. Clickbait is wasting people’s time at best, and intentionally misleading at worst. This headline (for a free article) is neither