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they need you to capture your attention to display you the ads. how else would they earn money? or do you expect them to work for free? would you work for free?

• applecrazy 9y ago
  Maybe someone should start a website that collects user submitted TL;DRs for URLs and has a chrome extension to inject the tldr on the page.
  • pirocks 9y ago
    I believe this already exists. http://tldr.guru/ http://tldr.guru/
• Retra 9y ago
  How did human survival somehow come to depend on manipulating and exploiting people? Two things you don't seem to be considering: 1. Maybe most articles simply don't need to exist. 2. Basic income. Or literally any other way of earning a living.
• ssully 9y ago
  A story that is expressly written to hook you for ads is obvious both in how it's written and it's quality (hint: usually bad). There is a lot of trash written just to hook eyeballs so I understand your sentiment, but it's very tiring seeing these comments, especially when it's on a story like this that was well written and clearly not the kind of article you are saying it is. The headline in this case was written to hook your curiosity, but the overall story was meant to explore more then just that answer. While it does answer it's original question, the story is also very much about the history of gorillas in captivity, and how their diets, treatmeant, and original misconceptions keepers had evolved over the years.
  • gondo 9y ago
    how you read the story depends on your subjective judgment. some might find it well written, others might find it too long to get a simple answer to a simple question regardless how well is it written. edit: originally i was responding to the parent comment asking for TLDR on every article. this is not related to the content of this particular article