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No, I hate headlines that are unnecessarily vague or misleading. "Canada wants to ban the Flipper Zero" would have been the same word count and infinitely more
by Dalewyn 3y ago
No, I hate headlines that are unnecessarily vague or misleading.
"Canada wants to ban the Flipper Zero" would have been the same word count and infinitely more descriptive.
Also, I'm not going to read the contents of every bloody article. Especially if the contents don't particularly interest me. Headlines exist for easy and reasonably accurate summarization, which this one fails to do.
- dghlsakjg 3y agoYou don’t have to read the article. The sub headline includes the context of the country being Canada. “Canada is moving to ban the TikTok-famous Flipper Zero, claiming that it contributes to car thefts. It doesn’t.” The least you could do is refrain from commenting on articles that you haven’t even clicked on.
- Repulsion9513 3y agoThe least the article could do is make it clear before I click, that I don't need to click on it because it's the same news I already read days ago... especially since I am passingly familiar with Vice and know they have a significant amount of US coverage as well. But then they wouldn't get clicks that are ultimately worthless to literally everyone involved except for them!
- autoexec 3y agoYeah, but by being vague they don't lose the clicks from anyone who would think "Not my country so no need to read about it!" - this way they can instill a sense of panic/indignation in everyone no matter what English speaking country with "Feds" they are in.