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A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
v
(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
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A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.
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(Internet marketing) A grid of clickbait advertisements on a webpage.
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Alternative form of clickbait [(Internet marketing, derogatory) 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.]
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(Internet) A form of click fraud, where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links for the click fraudster.
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(Internet) A type of fraud in which a computer program is used to simulate mouse clicks on advertisements, driving revenue to the advertiser, who is paid per click.
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Alternative form of clickbait [(Internet marketing, derogatory) 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.]
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(Internet marketing, derogatory) 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.
adj
Alternative form of clickbaity [(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.]
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(derogatory) One who creates or publishes clickbait.
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(informal, derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.
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(derogatory) A person who participates in clicktivism
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(Internet) A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.
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(slang, Internet) A formal notice to a user on a website (particularly YouTube or other video-sharing site) reprimanding the user for copyright infringement.
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(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
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To search the Internet for references to one's name or works in order to gratify one's ego.
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(informal) The result of translating foreign-language text via any of various popular web-translation engines.
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(Internet slang, chiefly in the plural) The act of deliberately following a hyperlink to a news story etc. that is likely to make one angry.
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(Internet) A website listing the submitted names of people who hate a particular celebrity, film, or other topic.
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(Internet, derogatory) Website content which relies on headlines provoking anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.
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(informal) To obtain something, especially information, about (something) from a source (especially electronic sources).
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(Internet, informal, derogatory) Website content that exists only to be shared, aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs.
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an instance of sharing or disseminating another's information or material with one's own audience
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(Internet) A paywall that allows limited free access, such as by allowing each user to read a certain number of articles per month without paying.
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(Internet) An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
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Initialism of think aloud protocol. [A data-gathering method used in a variety of research areas in people are asked to verbalise their thought processes as they do a specific task, and this is recorded for further analysis.]
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(Internet) Without spam.
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Abbreviation of crosspost. [(computing, transitive, intransitive) To post (a message) to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.]
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