I it is not about opt-in, it is about getting both money and traffic from google. This quote from the parent linked article is very telling: > After the passag

I it is not about opt-in, it is about getting both money and traffic from google. This quote from the parent linked article is very telling: > After the passage of the law Google asked German publishers to explicitly opt-in or be excluded from search results as protection against liability. Publishers opted-in but filed an antitrust complaint, arguing they were effectively forced by Google to waive their copyrights.