Since these sites depend upon traffic to get advertising revenues, they necessarily try to use headers to get readers curious and thus lure readers to click on the link and read the article. That is fine, as long as the header provides some information that gives me a reasonable expectation of what the article contains. Over time, I have developed a kind of filtering reflex that tells me whether I should click or not. In general, I tend to avoid links that contain short cryptic headers that do not give any clue as to what the article contains. I get so irritated by these kinds of titles that I do not click on the link.

Source: CNN December 29, 2023 18:13 UTC