A journey through internet garbage
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This scheme can be scaled by a lot of misterious clickbaity questions without answers, because an attention of a person searching for answer for some question can be redirected to another question, then to one more, and more... It looks as a labyrinth where you could follow clickbaits and where you never able to find answer for question bothering you. Moreover you a facing a lot of other mysterious questions and if you got tired for the current one, then your attention might get caught by another, and you might continue to run through the labyrinth, clicking, clicking, clicking...
I guess what is the business model behind this. Showing ads? Skewing metrics?
Either they are offered a great deal by the new incumbent or management gets fed up with poor revenue/poor targetting.
I've seen it happen 3 or 4 times in the last few years?
Taboola & Outbrain are a plague on the internet. Plus, I still have belly fat.
IMO it's better to do both. Ad supported websites are usually not worth spending time on, but on the occasion, you can still send a signal that you disapprove of this business model.
> the ads quality will help you decide about content quality.
Usually, the very presence of ads tell you the site content is most likely garbage.
Why should someone rely on correlation between content quality and ads quality, when she is capable of making decision based on an actual content?
1) https://www.techradar.com/news/iphone-xi Absolute trash, playing video, obtrusive ads, popup. Thank you but no, I don't want to consume shit even if content is stellar (actually it is not).
2) https://9to5mac.com/guides/iphone-11/ Reasonable, actually surprisingly readable. Awesome in terms of rivals.
3) https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3066173/iphone-11-... Absolute trash, can't even see the content because of popup "we'll sell you soul after you accept".
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Blocking ads is bad for everyone, because you still "consume" the website and it has incentive to continue while users are ok with that (not leaving). More likely your ad-block provider sells you visiting history to similarweb or so because nothing is free :)
Maybe it is so. But it is not enough to watch ads. Try for yourself, use adblocker for a month. You'll see that it is just plain impossible to use site with ads. You believe that ads is normal, and it is the only reason why you conform.
This makes me want to work on a bot to reword hacker news into all clickbait links?
"Rust vs Python? You'll be amazed what this hacker recommends!"
"Uber lawsuit! They sued who?!"
From a casual following of tech news, it should be: "Uber lawsuit! Who's taking on them this time?!"
The lengths the author goes to to discover what must be a highly questionable answer, just from irresistible curiosity.
TL;DR? Looks like it's corn.
I mean I've found myself half an hour into an hourlong ad once when I fell asleep watching youtube on the tv.
(That's behind a lot of marketing actually, making people think they have a problem; that they have gut issues, that they're not cleaning hygienically enough (and that there's germs everywhere), that they need to have a four hour erection at age 70, that they need to go skydiving in tight white pants while on their period, that someone might shoot a cannon at their boat so they need tape to patch it, that their abs are not good enough so they need another gym device that fits under their bed, etc.
This is how you know it's a C-level email.