I don't think it needs to be illegal, because the "market pressure" is still there:
- users don't like it and go away without actually reading the content
- Google detects click-away from these sites as a bad search result and begins downranking them (ask yourself: "Am I getting to most of these sites via search results, or via mindless social media browsing?" Social media isn't optimized for search-efficiency signal like a search engine is).
So there's a negative-feedback loop on the thing, but the transition from accessing the web via search to social has disrupted the old feedback loop enough that some people think it's short-term profitable to be like this. It will be until either Facebook catches up to the game and starts down-sampling bad actors too or users get tired of it and stop clicking through off of social to those sites, but I expect that negative feedback loop is kicking in.
> I don't think it needs to be illegal, because the "market pressure" is still there
Also, I see people complaining about all kinds of stuff that doesn't bother me at all. Just because something annoys you personally, that doesn't necessarily mean it should be forbidden.
- users don't like it and go away without actually reading the content
- Google detects click-away from these sites as a bad search result and begins downranking them (ask yourself: "Am I getting to most of these sites via search results, or via mindless social media browsing?" Social media isn't optimized for search-efficiency signal like a search engine is).
So there's a negative-feedback loop on the thing, but the transition from accessing the web via search to social has disrupted the old feedback loop enough that some people think it's short-term profitable to be like this. It will be until either Facebook catches up to the game and starts down-sampling bad actors too or users get tired of it and stop clicking through off of social to those sites, but I expect that negative feedback loop is kicking in.