Clickbait is a term used to describe an article that is not necessarily about a real story, but rather a sensationalized version of the story. The most common form of this is when an article is displayed on a website and then contains a link that will lead you to another website. This link will then contain a different article about the same topic that is not necessarily true. Some articles are designed to lead readers to click on advertisements that pay for the article to be displayed on the website. This means that the articles are not written with any journalistic integrity. This leads to many people thinking that the website that they are on is not reliable.

Sometimes clickbait is displayed as a link to an article that has nothing to do with the story that the website displays. Other times it may be displayed in a text format on the website that is not easy to understand and will not lead to a link.

In order to avoid clickbait, you can use this extension that will display a right-click menu option that will sum up the article and its clickbait before you even click it.