There are many news sites that make it extremely hard to share their content on sites like HN or reddit because of these tricks. I wonder if they are actually losing traffic from it, or if their tactics work? I'm referring when you copy the text in the title of an article to try to paste it into the Title box on HN or reddit. But what you 'paste' is actually a huge paragraph about how great the news website is and how you should download their apps and read more on their website. At that point, I can't be bothered to clean it up and I refuse to type out some text that I should have been able to copy.
Does it really work? Do sites actually get more traffic by hijacking your keyboard's basic functions to insert advertisements? I guess it probably does. :(
Does it really work? Do sites actually get more traffic by hijacking your keyboard's basic functions to insert advertisements? I guess it probably does. :(