Friendly suggestion: Substitute video’s clickbait title with something more informative like “Variable pricing using AI algorithms are increasing grocery prices.”
I can’t believe anyone would think that clickbait is something people want. There is no purpose to it here - no affiliate monetary gain, no cash for clicks - just a Youtube video. Note that my quarrel is with the video uploader, not OP
I’ll consider that next time here. Sometimes people feel that the title should stay.
It depends on the community/instance for the most part. This is a great piece, but I almost didn’t click on it because of the shitty title.
More Perfect Union is great. Consumer Reports still does some good work; they used to be even better, but they don’t have the funding they used to.
but I almost didn’t click on it because of the shitty title.
I mean I cannot know what any given person thinks is a good title. I just find things I find worth sharing and post to comms I think are relevant. It is up to the people here to decide if they care for it. I’ve had lemms ask me for summaries on a 10min video. I can see why they might want one for an hour long, but at a certain point its not up to me to “sales pitch” and I do have other things I’d like to do as well.
Still I think this is a good video and one that we can share with our loved ones that are not at the level of understanding that we are.
A good title gives you information about or summarizes the subject. A shitty title hides that information to force people to click to discover what it is, and 99.99% of the time it’s some low-quality crap. I won’t be clicking that video and will never know if it’s good, because just from the title I lost all respect for its creator, whose name I don’t even want to know. Clickbait is a cancerous culture pushed by content farms and predatory engagement algorithms. I refuse to submit to it.
That was a rule in some subreddits. I’ve found that, on Lemmy, de-clickbaiting headlines is generally appreciated.
