• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused, in this hypothetical is Foozsplatz a non sense word or is it meant to be a game like Roblox? If you mean the first, then yeah, obviously replacing a proper noun with gibberish changes the implication. If you mean the second then no, it would have the same implication.

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      1 year ago

      It literally doesn’t matter. You can remove the word and the nature of the problem being discussed is still the same. What platform is being targeted has nothing to do with the example problem. Roblox is only mentioned to sensationalize it and get clicks.

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          1 year ago

          The thread you are in and my response made it clear that the headline is clickbait by including that irrelevant detail.

          If they didn’t include that word in the post title, it would have no traction at all.

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            1 year ago

            “Roblox library is target of typo squatting” is a perfectly accurate headline that uses the word Roblox and is not clickbait.