Meta won’t negotiate with publishers, will end Facebook news in Canada
arstechnica.com
A small percentage of Canadian Facebook users is already losing access to news.
  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s worse.

    The preview Facebook or whoever is providing is the content the site literally explicitly provided for the purpose of linking to their website. It’s like the restaurant gave you a stack of flyers then tried to charge you for handing them out.

    • NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Is it actually a provided preview, or a preview they are generating.

      I know part of the legit problem is when a website summarizes something and then people don’t click on the link, which reduces ad revenue.

      But maybe there’s a provided summary (which should be fine) and the other way it gets summarized (which could arguably be deemed bad)

      But making them pay to just link with is batshit insane.