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If you don’t want visitors reading snippets on google, simply block google via robots.txt Ditto for fb. Forcing a company to buy services is ridiculous. But

• freediver 6y ago
  Remember, it may be easy for you, but 99.99% of population does not know how to do that or what robots.txt is. Websites have been harvested for profit in similar way privacy was for the last 20 years. The content and privacy came as completely free resource for tech companies to exploit and, exploit they did making enormous wealth in the process. A parallel to oil exploitation comes to mind. At one point we need to realize that this practice is not sustainable and there have to be consequences. The core idea of the search engine we are working on is that websites that appear in search results should receive a share of the profits for our privilage to have them there in the first place (and make money off that fact). So not only we will pay for links, we will do so without them asking.
  • allie1 6y ago
    You dont need the visitors to know how to do it, only newspapers’ devs or any kind of tech. Someone must be responsible for maintaining their websites, and robots.txt is as simple as can be, even has plugins for cms and such. Websites can opt out but most of those make their money by driving traffic off of search engines and social media and selling ads themselves. Only the best of the best media sites would even make it online without traffic from aggregators and social media (i have been involved in local media so yes, that is from experience). However, either case, media sites lose more than Google or fb gains if they delist, gands down.