• CDN ( CDN@beehaw.org ) 
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    3 years ago

    Happy to see Meta booted from the industry, but I’m a bit concerned about Google no longer indexing news articles here…

        • rho50 ( rho50@lemmy.nz ) 
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          3 years ago

          IIRC DuckDuckGo wasn’t a fan of the Australian media bargaining bill either. I suspect they will also deindex news sites in Canada should amendments not be made.

          I haven’t seen the Canadian one and this is honestly the first I’ve heard of it, but the idea that a referrer has to pay a news website for directing traffic to them is ludicrous to me.

    • Serenus ( Serenus@beehaw.org ) 
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      3 years ago

      If this marks the return of people actually picking up a newspaper (or the digital equivalent), that’d be fantastic. Not holding my breath, but one can hope.