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Also, scraping was a problem for publishers: if your site was popular, copy-cats would show up republishing your work with minimal credit. That said, this seem
by acdha 5mo ago
Also, scraping was a problem for publishers: if your site was popular, copy-cats would show up republishing your work with minimal credit.
That said, this seems quaint in the modern era where trillion-dollar tech companies are doing that to publishers now, too.
- donohoe 5mo agoNo. That wasn’t a concern with RSS for publishers. Most publishers have RSS still or feeds. Scraping index pages continues to be trivial.
- acdha 5mo agoYes, it was a concern. You can say that some people made their peace with it but if you’d been there at the time, it was absolutely mentioned.