Phone-wide clickbait detection and filteration

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Does not exist... But I sure hope it was. (Sorry for the clickbait).

These stupid clickbait takes too much of my time and attention,if there was something that just filter articles/websites automatically (or even just tag them) I think my life will be much more efficient.

Do you think it is even possible, what would you envision?

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Become a wiser fish/bullfrog. We all know about how fish and bullfrogs are caught by lures on hooks - surely you are smarter? We all know the bait - some fascinating story lead - click and you get a nibble - click for page 2 - ahh the bait attracted me, but I now see the yawning rabbit hole of nullity. Sadly, all I can do is stop now that I know the number of the beast - as they say, the devil is in these details... That said, I scan a number of aggregators, and the common clickbait aspect is the lack of a page of content - once I see a scarcely fleshed out page I will only advance if there is a particularly nice fly for this bullfrog to snap up. Automate with a look ahead scanner for those lean well branched trees? Over my pay grade, but it may be possible if robot flags are ignored, which is OK for us to do, but I have never felt strongly enough to look for that type of solution - I just groan and Next!...

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