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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties
As soon as "clickbait" became a thing, it was bound to happen.
The internet pretty much killed the days where you could read a newspaper and just kinda chill out.
I wonder who fired the first shot in that war. Be interesting to read a history of online portals and who started the trend of being annoying for attention.
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I'm kind of amazed that sites like CNN have clickbait ads on their home page. Is the revenue really worth completely undermining their credibility? Apparently it is. But jeez, their money home page has links to "stories" that are blatantly fraudulent. Right now, I see "paid partner content" on the CNN money page that has the headline, "Beginners guide shows how to turn $4,600 into $460,164 trading options". And I'm supposed to find CNN credible?
But yeah, it'd be interesting to trace back and see where this decline started, and why.