clickbait
Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the…Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.
» After falling victim to clickbait, my computer caught a virus.
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1 senses(Internet, countable, derogatory, uncountable)Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.
Klickköder, Clickbait
кликбейтklikbejt
Examples
4 sentencesAfter falling victim to clickbait, my computer caught a virus.
This website is full of shady advertisements and clickbait!
It's not always clickbait.
Nowadays, everything you see on YouTube is clickbait.
deBei Youtube ist mittlerweile alles, was man sieht, ein Klick-mich-Köder. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
8 languagesForms
plural: clickbaitsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable