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This person is asking for money in order to help provide a service… and that service is “stop other people from asking for money to provide a service.” Hard not
by ketzo 5y ago
This person is asking for money in order to help provide a service… and that service is “stop other people from asking for money to provide a service.” Hard not to feel a little irony.
There are approximately three outcomes here.
1. Google shuts this guy down, some way or another
2. Paywalled sites sue this into oblivion
Or worst of all,
3. Google stops being able to usefully surface decent news content.
Paywalls are annoying, but this is not a long-term solution.
- HWR_14 5y agoHow is "Google isn't allowed to scrap site to power their site for free" the worst option. Google can write a few checks to access the data. They have enough money.
- sverhagen 5y agoIf publishers wanted Google to not index their data without paying for it, they'd already asked them not to index, robots.txt and what not? I find it more likely that Google would come up with some sort of API that publishers can register, so that Google can get in (and 12ft can not)?
- anonporridge 5y agoA long term solution is micropayments. I'm happy to pay a few cents to read an article. I'm absolutely NOT happy to be forced to sign up for 10 different subscriptions.