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Titles like this drive clicks, as evidenced by the fact that this is now at the top of HN. I don't like the title either, but the internet is built to incentiv
by save_ferris 7y ago
Titles like this drive clicks, as evidenced by the fact that this is now at the top of HN.
I don't like the title either, but the internet is built to incentivize behavior and content like this, unfortunately.
- mindslight 7y agos/the internet/the economy/ IP definitely has its failings, but the incentive behind clickbait is a late stage economy answerable only to its own metrics. On a technical level, "The Web" (HTTP/JS) is much more at fault than "The Internet", as its naive designs have fostered a surveillance industry that transmutes a negative-value pageview into positive money.