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A new study of 35 million news links circulated on Facebook reports that more than 75% of the time they were shared without the link being clicked upon and read

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[–] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Yup. If I actually want to read an article and it isn't a site I already know isn't too bad, I'll right click copy the link and put it in the archive machine to get to a readable version of it. I really don't think they can blame us at this point for not wanting to click every shitty clickbait headline, nor is it necessarily a bad thing that people aren't (especially people who don't use adblock and just accept cookies to make the shit go away. With the quality of reporting on most of these sites, they're definitely not getting a good deal)