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reading is hard (social.photo)
submitted 9 months ago by conditional_soup@lemm.ee to c/memes@lemmy.world

Headlines have never made me watch ads or accept cookies

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[-] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Most of the time the article is the same length as the headline.

What even is journalism these days?

[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Or has a ton of filler because no one can get to the point. Gotta have a lot of lines so we can stuff more ads in the article

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Or are paywalled, and/or require you to dismiss 57 pop-ups, reject cookies, stop and scroll past an irrelevant auto-playing video, and search for the actual content in half in wide strips between multiple 7" tall ads, some of which are excerpts from unrelated "articles" on the same site.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Don’t forget all the extra words they add to game search engines!

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