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Did they imagine it would slow down scrapers/bots?
I would imagine it's for measuring engagement. They can then use the data to tailor their ad sale strategy and I imagine their content strategy.
What is the point of sites doing this in the first place? Is it to show more ads below the content?
See, e.g., https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay#new_behaviors
Reading too much slows down scrolling and ad views, you must keep scrolling. Also, trying to have meaningful conversations with others might lead to independent ideas or actions that are out of the control of the platform, all ideas or actions must benefit only the platform and its adverisers.
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I absolutely hate that on ("new") Reddit comments, because in many cases it really is something I want to see, or at least text-search through. And the weird thing is that they're trying to pinch pennies over text .
Yeah, I agree. The one that annoys me even more is github's "Load more..." in the middle of long PR/issue threads. That's really obnoxious when trying to search. And it only loads 50 comments at a time, so you have to hit it repeatedly .
Reading too much slows down scrolling and ad views, you must keep scrolling. Also, trying to have meaningful conversations with others might lead to independent ideas or actions that are out of the control of the platform, all ideas or actions must benefit only the platform and its adverisers.
Yeah, I get your point. However I also think [see more]