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The publisher can control how much content is exposed via RSS (typically just the lede), whereas with presenting scraped content by third party news aggregators
by tannhaeuser 8y ago
The publisher can control how much content is exposed via RSS (typically just the lede), whereas with presenting scraped content by third party news aggregators, the user will never need to visit the origin site.
- Andrex 8y agoThe publisher can also control how much is shared with third party aggregators, either through robots.txt or a paywall method. Which has been the case since search engines became a thing.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoThat isn't the same at all. A publisher cannot use robots.txt, and much less paywalls, to indicate a part of text that can be shared in syndication.
- Andrex 8y agoA paywall can. The page displays the snippet the publication is allowing to be shared, while the paywall hides the rest. I believe this is what a few of the bigger US newspapers are doing right now.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoOk, but that would require regular readers to have credentials for the paywall. I understood the discussion to be about scraping publicly accessible sites.