Falling for the Click Bait

rockytopva said:

Click Bait - Using the shock value of a false story to lure the unsuspecting web serving into a never ending series of ads. I have seen pages like this eat up gigabytes of RAM and end up locking my computer. I have also spent a whole day depressed only to research and find out the whole story was fabricated and none of it was true.

This guy tells it the best... Nothing is more frustrating to me than to watch a brief, exciting video on YouTube and then have it end just when the bad guy who mistreated someone is about to get revenged. That’s the exact moment we become “clickbait” when the computer screen tells us to see the rest of the story in the first comment or some other hard to find link. That may or may not show us the end of the video or story but we usually get a series of ads that never end. - Have you ever wondered how we all became today’s clickbait?

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I see way too much ai generated obnoxious content looking like intelligent history, documentary or other content. Deep fakes too are taking over and they are like the old 2400 baud modem 'war' dialers that were operated by someone's angry computer or server. They would get someone's phone number list, enter it in a batch process, set up viruses everywhere including wiping their own drives viruses and hit a button.

Everyone's phone ringing non stop with some add or political fake message, and designed from a bullied greasy haired cigar smoking resident.

Eventually they would get traced back and arrested, great way to get attention as a bullied victim turned victimizer.

Then their infamous fame would spread.

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These days much more advanced attacks are happening. YouTube ai pirates, probably running automated ai videos bringing in money with ads and depositing in some account for some nefarious reason.

Also not cute nor funny.

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I share your grief and pain my friend, I really do.

Shouldn't be long till they get the newest annoyance under control.

@Raccoon1010

rockytopva said:

Click Bait - Using the shock value of a false story to lure the unsuspecting web serving into a never ending series of ads. I have seen pages like this eat up gigabytes of RAM and end up locking my computer. I have also spent a whole day depressed only to research and find out the whole story was fabricated and none of it was true.

This guy tells it the best... Nothing is more frustrating to me than to watch a brief, exciting video on YouTube and then have it end just when the bad guy who mistreated someone is about to get revenged. That’s the exact moment we become “clickbait” when the computer screen tells us to see the rest of the story in the first comment or some other hard to find link. That may or may not show us the end of the video or story but we usually get a series of ads that never end. - Have you ever wondered how we all became today’s clickbait?

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Youtube is filled with Click Bait!