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Clickbait
"Clickbait" in a Sentence (14 examples)
This website is full of shady advertisements and clickbait!
After falling victim to clickbait, my computer caught a virus.
Video sites like YouTube are chock-full of clickbait titles such as "FATHER MARRIES DAUGHTER!?" or "MOST TERRIFYING GAME EVER!?".
Nowadays, everything you see on YouTube is clickbait.
The social media giant announced in a blog post that it was once again tweaking its algorithm that will reduce so-called clickbait from appearing prominently in the News Feed.
It's not always clickbait.
Not only are her thumbnails clickbait nowadays, her most recent video has a random jumpscare halfway through. I don't know if she's gaining anything from including that, but she sure is losing a loyal follower.
Fairfax's sites are renowned for what is sometimes called ‘clickbait’: headlines written to beguile passing eyeballs but which obscure nondescript or irrelevant stories.
"His careful lawyerly writing would be out of fashion now", wrote one commenter after Kettle's piece. "It wasn't clickbait".
In August 2016, leaders at Facebook announced a plan to identify and limit clickbait, because the Facebook newsfeed goal is to “show people the stories most relevant to them.”
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In comparison with algorithms used in the past, this SI based technique provided a better accuracy and a human interpretable set of rules to classify clickbaits
Whether they're acts of clickbaiting or dumbness, internet headlines routinely mischaracterize quotes, inaccurately paraphrase statements, and misuse specific terms, all to make readers click.
But he'd clickbaited her.
I have never clickbaited anyone with overexaggerated titles, but also never downplayed the severity of the content within.
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