Did they bring it on themselves? Or where they forced to adapt to the loss of revenue? As you say it's harder to skim content behind a paywall or in a video, it

Did they bring it on themselves? Or where they forced to adapt to the loss of revenue? As you say it's harder to skim content behind a paywall or in a video, it's also harder to scrape it. For every user like you that visited more sites because of Google News, there are likely plenty more who stopped visiting any sites because what Google News surfaced was all they felt they needed.