The funny thing is, Lifehacker itself has written about how straight up horrible unnecessary slideshows are and provided some ways of getting around them:
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While I’m sure there was quite the discussion about this topic prior to this article, hence it being written, I can’t help but feeling it falls into the Streisand affect. The more articles are written to tell people to ignore something, the more eyes and voices you draw to the conversation resulting in the opposite…
My favorite is when they repost an article from years ago but give it a new timestamp despite literally the only update they’ve made to it is to force it into a slideshow. I understand the value of evergreen content but keep the same timestamp unless information has changed. Making the formatting worse doesn’t…
I’m pretty darn techy and even I remember being confused when this was announced whether it was an add-on or new hardware.
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If the slideshows alone aren’t bad enough, they’re re-posting old content with a new timestamp so it appears as new prior to clicking when the only update to it is them unnecessarily wedging the post into a slideshow format. I’m all on board with evergreen content being brought up at relative times but not a fan of…
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