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Well it still isn't simple clickbait.

Why? By what measure is this not simple clickbait? Because it's a well-known pattern that has been used to bait people for years already? Because it's targeted at a tech audience? Because it's written by someone from Mozilla? None of these seem like reasons not to go with a more descriptive title.

It is click bait. It's not really deceptive. It could have been more descriptive indeed. It's hard to summarize in a title though. Probably not impossible. What would you have written?

Anyway, everything fully worked as intended for me: I had some fun reading this title, expected something interesting coming from hacks.mozilla.org and got it.

it's one weird tricks all the way down

Yes, exactly, because it's a well known trope by now, it's no longer deceptive and has a completely different meaning now than originally. Originally it was click bait, now it is a shared culture joke.

It's only clickbait if you claim that you have never seen it before. Do you wish to try to claim that?

The title is exactly the same both with and without the trailing extra few words, except one is dry and one attempts to be humorous.

You may for some reason find the attempted humor intolerable, but that's more about you than the article.

There is actually still a clickbaity element, but it's not anything you complained about, it's leaving out a few words to say "on Windows by avoiding overcommittting memory" or similar. Beginning a sentence and withholding the gist so the only way to know the end is to read the article, is indeed click bait.

I generally agree, though it occurred to me that the fact it is now a cultural joke may make you want to know what's behind it, making it a second-order click bait.

That's why I said "simple".

I agree but then that makes it "dual use" clickbait, since there's always less-savvy new people coming along.

Someday it will be possible to effectively filter all info that is presented on my devices, and along with anyone/anything mentioning Trump and Musk, overly-clever articles that sound like clickbait will be gone along with the real thing.

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