Economic Times – Booby trap
hyperlinks in Web pages
When you visit websites for news, you are forced to see a
large number of advertisements, each competing with the other trying to lure
you away to some useless stuff. If you are genuinely interested in what is
advertised and click the link voluntarily that is fine. Nowadays you see videos
playing automatically, right inside text or content, eating away bandwidth,
wasting your time and slowing your connections.
I have observed another atrocity: Implanting irrelevant hyperlink
to common words serving no purpose at all except to lead you away to some
idiotic external site. For example, the following
page (as of today – 30th Sep 2019)
Contains link to the word ‘Care’ as shown in the image below
Hyperlinked to:
Indian Express is the worst offender as many web pages therein
are covered by advertisements to 90% of space! True, try and verify this
yourself
Why should prestigious newspapers stoop so low to cheat
their readers? Google might be the real offender! Who knows.
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