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If anything, US big tech is and has been siphoning money from the Australia news media for a decade.

• AdrianB1 6y ago
  How exactly is that? Giving you a link to the news media web site does extract money from them?
  • offby37years 6y ago
    Link previews (headline, image, blurb) are a substitute good. Many would-be eyeballs never click through. Big tech profits, news media dwindles.
    • erklik 6y ago
      Yet the code targets all links, not previews, just links. This is a cash-grab.
    • SilverRed 6y ago
      News sites can opt out via robots.txt if they don't want to be in Google's listings.