🧩 FEATURE REQUEST: remove the "might be clickbait" warning for free users

[ZaLiTHkA]

Concise Description

remove the "might be clickbait" warning for free users

Description

as a user without a "Daily.dev Plus" subscription, I see numerous articles in my feed that show a small yellow shield icon with a tooltip that reads "This title could be clearer and more informative. Try out Clickbait Shield."

my first issue with this, is that it seems to be highly inconsistent.. I've seen the same article pop up on different days, where one day it is considered potential clickbait, but the next day it's not. this could be due to other changes in the backend, but I'm not sure. I don't have any examples of this, but if need be, I can monitor my feed and make notes.

my second and arguably more import issue with this, is that it is very seldom appropriate.. it flags clear and concise titles with good tags as "might be clickbait", while skipping over blatantly clickbait titles. examples of this are included further below.

Solution Proposed

my most brutally honest suggestion is to simply remove this feature entirely.. but at the very least, please remove the "might be clickbait" warning shown to free users, as all it does is shine a spotlight on how dysfunctional the underlying algorithm actually is.

Additional Context

a few examples, some taken from an email conversation with Sab Selvam after my most recent submission through the "feedback" link, and others I see right now in my current feed:

a card titled "5 Linux terminal apps better than your default - and they're all free" was flagged as "potentially clickbait". but why? it's pretty clear what the linked article is about.

another card titled "Swapy - Easy Drag-to-Swap Solution" was not flagged. but what is it? is this a standalone tool for, uh.. "swapping things"? is it a web dev library? is it a 3D print filament swapper? it had no tags, so absolutely no context.

another card right next to it, titled as nothing more than "Fancy Components", also not flagged as clickbait. at least this one had some tags, but again, is this someone's blog post on some fancy components they made? is it a library to help build components? a collection of copy-paste code snippets (like ShadCDN, for example)?

as I write this, I see one titled "Recently, April 14, 2025", with tags of "ai", "startup", "rails", "twillio".. is that not clickbait?

directly after that, "Murderbot is going through it in the first trailer for Apple's sci-fi series", which is flagged as "maybe clickbait". is it though? is that title not clear enough to know what it's about before opening it?

as a final example, I see another card titled "A Single Mortgage", with tags of "webdev", ".net" and "banking", and not flagged as potential clickbait. seriously? how is that not clickbait?

in closing, I just want to say that for me personally, the damage has already been done. I now have zero interest in ever signing up to try this "feature".. simply because I now know that, if it were enabled, it has a ridiculously high chance of hiding genuinely interesting and informative articles from me.

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[ZaLiTHkA]

I could have included this above, but just to make sure this doesn't get drowned out by my other examples.. there is one specific post and subsequent conversation with Ido Shamun in the comment section that prompted me to open this request. as seen here: https://app.daily.dev/posts/Ma8mBhpmI

the title is "Warning to developers: Stay away from these 10 VSCode extensions", with tags of "security", "devops", "malware" and "vscode". this article was flagged as "might be clickbait" the other day, whereas now I see it is not.

this is, in my humble opinion, critical information for anybody who use VSCode... the simple fact that this potentially AI powered "feature" may have hidden this from me, even temporarily, is nothing short of scary.