Sure, front page headlines has always been subject to this. But with the internet everything is the front page, and stories only get promoted based on how clic

Sure, front page headlines has always been subject to this. But with the internet everything is the front page, and stories only get promoted based on how clickbaity they are. I can look past the top headline, this is several orders of magnitude worse. Paywalls made this much worse, now every single link has to sell you a subscription. Which is bad enough if you don't pay for a subscription but absolutely devastating if you actually paid for content that only serves as bait for people that don't.