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Let's say that all websites decide that they deserve a payout if they are linked by Facebook. Who would be hurt the most?

• givemeethekeys 3y ago
  Let's say, I share a link to a website that wants to get paid on my Facebook. Meta won't crawl it, since they don't want to pay. So, the link will show up, but without a preview. Any one who clicks on the link will visit the website first, potentially removing them from Facebook for a little while. Alternatively, Meta may decide the demote links without previews. Both of these scenarios reduce active users, and time spent by users on the website. Fewer engagement minutes means fewer opportunities to show them ads. On the other hand, those users will end up seeing more ads on the news website.
  • yashg 3y ago
    Or Meta can simply stop parsing such links and not even show a hyperlink. If users want to visit the link, they have to copy it manually and paste it in address bar. Funny thing, many users don't even know they can paste links in address bar. They use Google as address bar. I have seen people type the whole domain name including the TLD in Google to get to websites. Now imagine Google also stops redirecting to such links that demand payment for sending them traffic.
    • givemeethekeys 3y ago
      Might be possible for browsers to recognize words that look like links to get around that.