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		otikik on Aug 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: News Feed FYI: Click-baiting I make a point to never follow a link containing the strings "You will never believe", "You will be amazed", "We didn't expect what happened next" or similar lazy copy text. I'm considering developing an adblock-plus-like plugin to remove them from the pages I visit.

dequis on Aug 26, 2014 | [–]

There's "downworthy", which doesn't remove them, but turns them into "realistic" versions: http://downworthy.snipe.net/ ("Literally" -> "Figuratively", etc)

CWuestefeld on Aug 26, 2014 | [–]

I'm considering developing an adblock-plus-like plugin to remove them

If you build that plugin, I'd use it (if it's for Firefox).

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