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We changed the title from "Creator of Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let certain ads through", which appears editorialized (unless WSJ changed their title). Submitters: please use the original title unless it is linkbait or misleading, and definitely please don't use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: ok you guys, thanks for the feedback. We rely on you to point out the important exceptions. Title reversion reverted.



Normally I'd agree, but the real story here is the new information about Crystal's business practices and not the generic story about ad blocking surrouding it.


I disagree with you on this one. The headline no longer represents why the story is of interest to HN and the original headline was factually correct and, actually, pretty similar to the WSJ's subhed, "Software promises to cut clutter; some ads skirt filters—for a price"


Yeah... unfortunately that's not editorialized, that's pretty much a fact per the article. WSJ really buried the lede here.


The article is literally saying that though. It's the one lead, the title should have stayed.


The original heading was not editorialised: it was not an opinion or interpretation but a summary of the content, and in fact the only reason I read the article in the first place.

The new title, which does not show up in RSS, would not have attracted me to read the article.


Choosing the lede, i.e. highlighting the detail you think is important and thus framing the story for everyone, is the essence of editorializing. However, there are exceptions for everything and this is clearly one, hence the fix above.




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