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Instead of an impossible to implement link tax, how about we just made it illegal for search engines to provide these kinds of "pirate" snippets without an opt-
by cannedslime 7y ago
Instead of an impossible to implement link tax, how about we just made it illegal for search engines to provide these kinds of "pirate" snippets without an opt-in... Either show meta desc, or don't show it at all. Adjust results by relevancy and pagerank (as they used to do) and everyone is happy.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoThere's nothing impossible to implement about it, but the marketing from the opposition has been really strong. It isn't even a link tax, for example, but it's detractors have pretty successfully rebranded it.
- cannedslime 7y agoNo you are right, its going to be super easy, barely an inconvenience! I give you that link tax is misleading its more like a snippet tax, right?