A very simple Chrome Extension that detects whether the Facebook post is clickbait or not. 👆
Want to try this right away? Install it from the Chrome Web Store! (Special thanks to Saurabh Mathur)
Clickbait: content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.
People continually fall for clickbait. Why? As Wired mentioned in its article on the psychology of clickbait: "Whether you think clickbait is on the rise, obscurant and self-negating, not such a big deal, or the root of all evil, one thing is clear about it: It's increasingly hard to pin down."
A lot of editors use clickbait in an effort to manipulate you or grab your attention. The difference with clickbait is you're often aware of this manipulation, and yet helpless to resist it. It's at once obvious in its bait-iness, and somehow still effective bait.
But with this small Chrome extension utilizing deep learning, one can easily identify whether an article on Facebook is clickbait or not.
Because I think that's where the majority of clickbait articles are posted, and if you can see that the article is clickbait from within Facebook itself, then the problem is solved.
Option 1: From the Chrome Web Store
Option 2: From source
chrome://extensions
in the location or go to Tools
> Extensions
Developer mode
by checking the checkbox in the upper-right cornerLoad unpacked extension...