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[โ€“] Woofcat 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I find this outrage so funny. "Hey you give me $500 for this used Timmies cup?" "No" "How dare you!"

Why would Meta / Google want to pay 250+ million dollars a year to link to news sites? Do you think they're generating billions of dollars in revenue from those links?

[โ€“] esty 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they show ads next to summaries of articles which, hey, blame the people for only reading the summary instead of clicking through to the source

but they do profit and I would like to see journalism Not become yet another Metaโ„ข product

[โ€“] Woofcat 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But the news org provides that summary with the page to Facebook... it's part of the Open Graph Protocol which... is for facebook. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Platform#Open_Graph_protocol

Lets look at the source of a CBC News story.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-variant-ba-2-86-1.6943005

property="og:description" content="A highly mutated variant of the virus behind COVID-19 has popped up in multiple countries, but scientists aren't yet sure whether it will fuel a fall wave of infections or simply fizzle out."/>

So if the news companies are upset that Facebook is showing a summary... maybe stop providing a summary to facebook explicitly in your code?

[โ€“] EhForumUser 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Whoa, whoa. We spent good money on developers to add OpenGraph support to our news platform in order for us to have full control over what is shown on Facebook. Now you want us to just throw that away? Do you know how much software developer time costs? There must be a better solution. What if, and hear me out... Facebook paid us to use that work we did?

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