CB;DR
Click bait: Dont read
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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Cock and balls; don't read
Depending on the thrust of the reader's aim, that may drive more interest in the source.
Cock and Ball DoRture
I will make an exception to do one read and leave a comment summary to hopefully reduce future click temptation for others.
A true hero!
Not all heroes wear capes
yuo get one or you get the other. ain't nobody want all these silly anagrams.
The real comment is always in the comments
Mine is video; didn't watch.
Ain't nobody got time for turning 30 seconds of text into a 10 minute video.
The easiest way to get the last word in an internet argument with me is to link to a video.
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=8R0GyAAypv_ZfJ7A
What now, smart guy?
I'm pretty active in some gaming communities and my clans regularly share 10 minute videos. I get so frustrated. Half the time I can say, "does this video just say x, y, and z?" Most of them can be summarized in 1 or 2 sentences
I can acknowledge that some videos have value. A game review showing gameplay? A football film breakdown? Showing me tips and tricks to throwing the perfect vase on a pottery wheel? Please, feel free to use video.
Someone rambling to a camera? No.
But so many people will happily watch the 15 minute video and will somehow not have the attention span to read three paragraphs that say the same thing. (And they'll watch 8 hours of YouTube videos babbling incoherently, but an 8 hour audiobook that actually makes sense? "Too hard.")
Half of US adults can't read at a 6th grade level. So.
I either watch <30 second videos, or 2h+ long videos. No in between.
Shout out to HBomb's Pathologic video, no text review can give me that experience.
Or when you are in public spaces without earphones. I am just doom scrolling on company time as a break.
Apparently you can use generative AI to summarize videos. Try using duckduckgo's !ai bang to do so anonymously.
Yeah I have no interest in that either.
HAIYGUIYZZZ, today we’re…blah blah…but let’s take a moment to talk about our sponsor, SMASHADALIKEBUTTON…
you could abbreviate that as -V;DW
Lol, nice.
But I ALWAYS try to replace pay walled links with archive links, even for posts that aren't mine.
Be nice if Lemmy had a bot for this, with a list of known pay walled sites.
You can automatically fetch one when posting with the native web ui
Well that's something.
I guess the apps need to add it then.
Sync doesn't have it while posting however you can easily view an archive.org page of any link by longpressing.
Oh that's pretty cool
You are a considerate person
I have a Macrodroid macro tied to a shortcut that sends the regular link to archive.org, so it's a little easier.
I haven't worked out how to have it do all the work, yet, unfortunately, so I still have to copy/paste manually.
Print working; directory
password doctor
Wait is the P not for “present”? Is my whole life a lie?
might be a good place you mention that you can use the NoScript extension to block paywalls. i’ve found it works on most websites with a paywall. it works by simply not loading the javascript code responsible for showing the paywall.
Although a lot of paywall sites are smart enough to only load part of the text, or only load it with a "show more" button, which would also break if you disable JavaScript.
yeah it doesn’t work for all of them, but it does work for a surprising amount of them
I use NoScript for 10+ years and it has never worked for me :(
Why didn't they put the semicolon in the expanded statement?
TD;BU
Troll Detected. Blocked User.
I approve and will start to use it today.
Immediately got a malware ad. Not recommended
Weird. Works on my end with no ads or anything. The site offers 5-6 ways to strip paywalls using existing websites like 12ft.io
ns;dw
no synopsis; didn’t watch
ns;dc
no synopsis; didn’t click
sounds more like 'password; didn't read', though admittedly that is fitting too, howabout 'pwl;dr'?
Nfnr Not free, not reading
I propose PW;CR, si ce it's pay walled I couldn't read it even if I wanted to. I'm too poor to pay!
Very good way to miss out on a lot of the least biased and/or most informative news articles
They're not difficult to bypass most of the time
How about NBP/DR
Non bypassable paywall, didn't read
Very good way to miss out on a lot of the least biased and/or most informative news articles, when they no longer can afford to do journalism and resort to tabloid crap, selling out to advertisers or billionaires with an agenda, or just close shop.