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Tue, Aug 20, 2019 11:58 AM
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Around The Web Powered by ZergNet is objectifying women and men, remove, please?
Around The Web Powered by ZergNet is objectifying women! The links almost always refere to female child actors that now, at a grown age "Are complete bomb shells", but the men are not discribed in that way at all... The women are judged by their looks and the men by their actions.. ZergNet seems to be an old click-bait page for cheap skin photos?
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charles_paxton_martin
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steve
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sasu_t_rm_l
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Hi,
Would you (IMDb) consider removing the "Around The Web" by ZergNet functionality from the site?
Though assuming that this is a source of income for the site, these are predominantly clickbait links, with erroneous and often deliberately faulty headlines, with the sole purpose of attracting visitor flow to gain clicks/revenue.
This may seem like an innocent enough functionality, but it does surely uphold the practice of disinformation, or "fake news". These headlines are, more often than not, formulated to attract the lowest common denominator, sometimes even promoting conspiracy theories and smear campaigns.
For a database with (hopefully) an intent to maintain factual data, this part of the scan column is a disagreeable showing of misinformation. And for a media literate user it is a pain in the buttocks.
Thank you for your interest
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huhohic
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johnny_rooq
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The “around the web” clickbait is really annoying and portrays many actors in a negative way, only to make people click on the links. I understand IMDB needs the royalties/ads, but it does not fit IMDB’s culture in my opinion.
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michel_binkhorst
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thomas_bayer_5226717
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If you've seen it you'll know what I mean. While not showing much, it is pornographic. And I would certainly say NSFW. Take a look, on the middle right:
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