Why do some non-paywalled webpages have a READ MORE button I have to click on before it reveals the rest of the article?

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I’d think that it’d be possible to do that less obtrusively. I mean, the “infinite scroll” model just loads content when hitting the bottom if the page. I inagine that a webpage could phone home once someone hits a given point in the page (and probably does).

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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      24 hours ago

      Yep it definitely could but people might scroll without reading the article, maybe they think there’s another article underneath or maybe they’re just scrolling to see how long it is. Clicking read more gives a less noisy signal I would think.