Some article websites (I’m looking at msn.com right now, as an example) show the first page or so of article content and then have a “Continue Reading” button, which you must click to see the rest of the article. This seems so ridiculous, from a UX perspective–I know how to scroll down to continue reading, so why hide the text and make me click a button, then have me scroll? Why has this become a fairly common practice?
My guess is that this gives them data they can analyze on how many people actually read the page that far.
It also generated clicks so they can charge advertisers more for views.
That’s… not how that works