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Facebook already understands robots.txt rules for FacebookBot, and maybe Meta can use that as a signal to exclude such websites. Of course, news companies woul
by supriyo-biswas 3y ago
Facebook already understands robots.txt rules for FacebookBot, and maybe Meta can use that as a signal to exclude such websites.
Of course, news companies would rather throw a fit and call big tech evil rather than trying to figure out how to provide news to users in the most efficient way possible.
- aussieguy1234 3y agoThe main issue they have is that in the old days, Newspapers made most of their money from ads. Now all the ads are online and that revenue is taken by Google/Social media platforms. They consider Facebook and social media to be their competitor in this sense, sometimes even more so than other media companies. So I think this is all some ploy by old media to try to claw back some of that revenue, which they legitimately lost to better performing technology.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoI’ve commented elsewhere that news companies are against any form of collaboration. They could form a coalition and run their own ad network, if they are so concerned against Google taking a slice of their ad revenue.