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For you certainly. But the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Clickbait drives an insane amount of traffic and it shows no slowing down. Cosmo has been suc

For you certainly. But the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Clickbait drives an insane amount of traffic and it shows no slowing down. Cosmo has been successfully using "clickbait" titles for decades on the cover of their magazines.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
Of course. I'm not denying the effectiveness of this technique, just providing a n=1 datapoint. Maybe my personal idiosyncrasies make me immune to that particular type of traffic-driving technique (I have no doubts I'm vulnerable to other methods).