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Clickbait
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Clickbait, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Privacy policy is presented with dark patterns that push users into accepting2024-04-25
- Clicking titles only to find they baited you, a bad experience2017-11-10
- Takes 10-20 seconds to scan links on every visit because nothing is cached2016-09-22
- Each sentence forces a new page of ads, so reading is tedious and exhausting2016-06-03
- On mobile, each next click redirects to an ad site and forces going back2015-03-20