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Facebook Cleans Up News Feed By Reducing Click-Bait Headlines

Posted by samzenpus on from the 20-shocking-reasons-this-won't-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook today announced further plans to clean up the News Feed by reducing stories with click-bait headlines as well as stories that have links shared in the captions of photos or within status updates. The move comes just four months after the social network reduced Like-baiting posts, repeated content, and spammy links."

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  1. Cut out the "you're the product!!1@!@!" crap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look, the "You're not the customer. You're the product!" saying was old in 2007. Fuck, it was old even in 1997, back when there were ISPs that offered free dialup Internet access in exchange for showing the customer some ads.

    I don't know why people like you feel the need to point out this idiotically obvious fact whenever the topics of Google or Facebook come up. It's especially stupid to point it out here at Slashdot, of all places. Everybody here is already well aware of the concept.

    So why the fuck do you keep trying to point it out? Is it somehow "insightful" to your small mind, decades after everybody else learned of the concept?