For overly clickbait-y titles (such as this one), I tend to start by reading the comments here to get a sense of if I should bother reading the article itself.

For overly clickbait-y titles (such as this one), I tend to start by reading the comments here to get a sense of if I should bother reading the article itself. It's so far been a occasionally effective defense against the growth of clickbait in technical blogs - it'd be nice if there was a tl;dr of the most clickbait-y articles but I suspect that this would be hard to do neutrally.