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At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy.
(pluralistic.net)
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Clickbait is bad.
This is double clickbait.
You open the Lemmy post and it's just a link to another thing. So I still don't know what the clickbait refers to. I have to open two layers to figure that out.
You didn't scroll at all, did you? Pluralistic is a well known blog. The content is just past the links at the top.
I didn't open the link. I opened the Lemmy post to figure out what the clickbait was about, but since it didn't illuminate that I didn't click on the link.
I think that's reasonable to do, especially inside of Lemmy.
It sounds like you're encouraging the poster to include a brief summary of the article vs duplicating the title in the summary. Something like,
Yes! Exactly. Very well put.
Providing proper context to helps us make decisions about what data we consume. Clickbait is the opposite, it's engineered to make you interested, but not satisfy the TLDR.
I won't click on a site if it has clickbaity headlines because I already know that it's light fluffy stories with no meat. I happen to already subscribe to pluralsite on my RSS feed, so I knew what the story was all about. Aren't there bots here that will visit links and provide a TL;DR summary so that I know if it's worth the click?