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This reminds me of Gordon Kelly, a senior contributor, whose every articles that pointed Chrome's weakness would often headlined "Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome". Sure enough, the headlines will be edited after awhile, but I consider this kind of original headline a clickbait. I eventually have to delist Forbes from my reading feed. It's that terrible.


it was the same author’s “Apple iOS [every version] Has A Nasty Surprise” headlines that made me drop them


Clickbait is a charitable interpretation. Perhaps one less so would involve betting on related stock prices before publishing such a headline.


Interesting, I didn’t realize that the headlines were being edited. But yeah the original headline is definitely clickbait.




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