A single character code change

Re:A single character code change by jonplackett on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:35PM (#21938866)

It’s almost as annoying as most news sites that have the headline, which is the same headline you already clicked on from google news or their homepage, then the subtitle which reiterates the headline. Then an image with a caption that is pretty much the same as the headline. Then the first line of the story which is also mostly the headline and then usually another repetition in the first paragraph.

Followed by a story which contradicts the headline, revealing the whole thing to just be click bait.

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Re:A single character code change by bena on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:46PM (#21938988)

Sounds like a way to thwart services and sites that clip the first N lines of an article. You can't get the gist of the article until you've actually clicked through.

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Re:A single character code change by jonplackett on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:35PM (#21940688)

I think it’s just click-driven lazy journalism.

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Re:A single character code change by 9HZZRfNlpR on Thursday January 02, 2020 @02:55PM (#21939099)

I would get autoplay video after the headline about irrelevant topic, ads, a lot of subjective and biased analysis, then the last sentence us what I was looking for.

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Re:A single character code change by jonplackett on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:34PM (#21940686)

Videos on news articles are the worst. I think it’s the evening standard that has a video at the top and when you scroll past trying to avoid it they pin it to the top right side and hide the close and mute buttons until it’s started playing. So annoying!

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