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Are there people out there that actually engage with the auto-playing videos, or the “articles you should also read” callouts forced between every other paragra
by deergomoo 5y ago
Are there people out there that actually engage with the auto-playing videos, or the “articles you should also read” callouts forced between every other paragraph? There must be right?
I know no-one likes them, but there must be some increase in engagement somewhere that causes the marketing folks to keep pushing these things.
Personally I find it makes the articles very hard to read without reader mode. Sites owned by G/O Media (The Onion, Kotaku) are particularly egregious. On mobile you can typically only get about 20-30 words of the article on screen at any one time (that’s an exaggeration, but not much of one).
- Nextgrid 5y agoWhen it comes to chumboxes aka "articles you should also read" I could definitely see old people less experienced with the internet's scumminess falling for them at least the first few times.
- jjbinx007 5y agoI take a particularly dim view on websites that have these. I don't care if that's how they make their living - they are making money by scamming people.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe sites themselves are aware of this reputational damage risk, and discuss this openly. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/a-merger-of-chumbox-mongers-might-leave-publishers-a-little-bit-poorer-and-their-websites-a-little-less-revolting/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/10/a-merger-of-chumbox-monger...
- corobo 5y agoI love that I got a popup modal asking for my email address on that page