this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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Explanation from my point of view:
at work I use Edge and it has the page with the clickbait at start. If I click, then the news is in the msn page with no direct link to the source (or hidden in a way that's not immediate)
Most times, at least in my country, the source is paywalled while the MSN version isn't
I mean, I've certainly found myself reading an MSN article after the title caught my eye in a search, but if you're sharing something you should take the time to review it and share a better link. In this case, the Forbes link does not appear to be paywalled, and archive.org should bypass that.
I'm happy people are sharing stuff to Lemmy, it's been a little quiet.
I definitely value the Forbes article over the MSN but we might not be talking about it if we hadn't seen this post. let's not be too critical when people are participating positively.
Maybe my first comment was a little crass, but I think the criticism is more than valid. Really, it's less of a criticism of the user and more of MSN republishing everything, as well as notice for people who haven't yet spotted that trick they're playing. But really, we should be encouraging users to share source articles or archive versions of the source article (as well as removing referral and AMP tags). I don't think that is likely to make people share less, rather help them to learn how to share higher quality content, which in turn should be more popular.