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It probably wouldn't be that hard to build one. I trained the world's dumbest clickbait classifier a few years ago if you want some ideas https://github.com/peterldowns/clickbait-classifier

This is great! I liked the "know it when I see it" comment :).

Be careful with that... that's the sort of thing that might be dangerous to run backwards... your program might produce clickbait so clickbaity that you can't help but try to click on it... but... oh no, there's no actual article there....

(hat tip https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/ )

Not a bad problem to solve .. how to identify clickbait

But how will you advertise your clickbait bot?

* Clickbait writers hate this Firefox extension!

Are you looking to penalize the headline or the article itself? I.e. a good article can have a click-baity headline, but if your extension removes that based solely on its headline, you'd never get to read it.

Ideally toggle-able (or site-based) I think. On HN I'd be happy to trust the points, and just improve the title for my own sanity. For general browsing, just get rid of it, it probably indicates the contents fairly reliably.