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Meta to start blocking news content for up to 5% of Canadian users
- PaulHoule 3y agoWhat I find odd about this is how haughty Meta and Google are. This kind of licensing would be an ideal way for Meta and Google to further build moats around their product by requiring any possible startup competitors (say somebody trying to commercialize something like my smart RSS reader) to also pay these fees which they'd have a much harder time to afford. If they were in the slightest afraid of competition they'd be lobbying for this kind of law, but they are not, which means they're not paranoid enough to survive.
- smoldesu 3y agoI don't think Google makes money from showing people news, much less search as a whole. Video ads are their bread and butter, along with non-Google adsense revenue and a few other sources. "Not paranoid enough to survive" is the wrong assessment. Plus, a lot of the shine wore off the licensing apple when The Times cancelled their biggest digital partnership: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/new-york-times-apple-news-app.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/new-york-times...