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Lemmy was pretty harsh about this when it came out. I was a bit surprised to see the fediverse take the side of Facebook and Google.
I thought it had good intentions. Journalism isn’t free, is becoming a service of value to Google and Facebook but without costing them anything.
I dunno, thought it was a good move.
It was/is a good move.
Some people are complaining that "billionaire media conglomerates" are going to be getting some money, but not that the large corporations like Meta and Google are making money off of others work without compensation.
Mind-boggling.
It totally disregards how the internet and the web works. Meta and Alphabet aren't copying whole articles and reposting them, they are linking to articles with a summary. You don't charge some one extra because they drive traffic towards you.
Linking with a summary of what is at the other end of the link is how the web works. Charging a toll to link to your site is greedy and ignorant.
Amp is opt in, news corps chose to suck that dick.
And does anyone use the cached link unless the original source is down?
robots.txt is also not a Google thing, it's use dates back to the early 90s and it's a signal for web crawlers, an integral and necessary part of all indexing engines, to voluntarily not crawl your site. Using it means your site does not get indexed and wont show up in search results.
The lazy producers of our C-Tier news put themselves where they are through apathy. They had decades and millions to get a head start in the digital market but instead chose to crank out click bait that looks exactly like their dead printed editions.