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Uh, it’s definitely not click bait. They literally sent a letter to a person to tell them that her death breached their rules. Part of the letter informed the

Uh, it’s definitely not click bait. They literally sent a letter to a person to tell them that her death breached their rules. Part of the letter informed the dead person they would restrict her ability to use the service. One wonders how they intend to implement restrictions more effective than death!

astura 8y ago
Clickbait is not defined as "a headline that is false," its defined as "a headline that makes you want to click." "PayPal told customer her death breached its rules" is much much "clickable" than "PayPal sent insensitive letter to a dead customer." It makes it sound much more outrageous. That's why it's borderline clickbaity to me. Added to that it didn't define 15.4 (c) of the Paypal Credit agreement. Feel free to disagree, there's no absolutes here, only opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait >Clickbait is a website link designed to entice users to go to a certain web-page or video.[1] [2] ... Click-bait headlines typically aim to exploit the "curiosity gap", providing just enough information to make readers of news websites curious, but not enough to satisfy their curiosity without clicking through to the linked content.[3][4][5]