I mean… it's pretty transparently intended to make the adverts less obvious still, isn't it?
The giveaway for me was that when I saw this headline I got the same feeling I did when my bank sends me a "good news about your interest rate" email – everything's about to get a bit worse and there's nothing to do about it.
Of course, the inherent flip side of making the adverts less obvious is making the content even less obvious still. They've slowly A/B tested their way into using what are basically dark patterns that will be tricking users into clicking stuff they didn't mean to. This won't go well.
The giveaway for me was that when I saw this headline I got the same feeling I did when my bank sends me a "good news about your interest rate" email – everything's about to get a bit worse and there's nothing to do about it.