Headlines have never made me watch ads or accept cookies

  • Hildegarde
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    611 months ago

    Most of the time the article is the same length as the headline.

    What even is journalism these days?

    • Throwaway
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      fedilink
      111 months ago

      Or has a ton of filler because no one can get to the point. Gotta have a lot of lines so we can stuff more ads in the article

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        411 months ago

        Or are paywalled, and/or require you to dismiss 57 pop-ups, reject cookies, stop and scroll past an irrelevant auto-playing video, and search for the actual content in half in wide strips between multiple 7" tall ads, some of which are excerpts from unrelated “articles” on the same site.

      • @darthelmet
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        311 months ago

        Don’t forget all the extra words they add to game search engines!