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Isn't the crux of the issue that FB and Instagram (and Google) do everything they can to keep users from clicking away from their website? Thereby starving the
by jquery 3y ago
Isn't the crux of the issue that FB and Instagram (and Google) do everything they can to keep users from clicking away from their website? Thereby starving the producers of the content. HN only posts the titles of articles with outbound links, I don't think it's a comparable situation.
- veave 3y agoWhat do they do to keep users from clicking away? I post a link on Facebook, you click it, the website opens. What do you mean? The opengraph tags? They are opt-in, the website puts it there voluntarily. Robots reading the pages? Robots from Google, FB, etc obey robots.txt directives (and if they didn't, it's the open web after all - reproducing the title of an article is fair use).
- nubinetwork 3y agoGoogle doesn't actually respect robots.txt... they want you to use meta tags instead.