Both Meta and Google have said they would remove Canadian news from their platforms to avoid having to compensate the news outlets.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    What a time to be alive! Could 2023 see the end of corporately owned social media platforms? We can only hope!

  • tvstr
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    91 year ago

    I’ve been waiting for this since Google released AMP! They had no business doing it in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          As much as I like to use duckduckgo, it’s still lacking when searching relevant stuff. But Google is annoying with it’s link redirect thing.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            You can use bangs on ddg to use other search engines through duckduckgo. So !g <search terms> would do a google search.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            People always say DDG search isn’t good but I never have any trouble. Can you give me an example?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              I can’t give you one right away but usually when I switch to ddg as default, looking for examples say coding/stack exchange, or specific trobule shooting usually google’s result list is better.

              If you are really specific terms and there are only a couple available, then there is less difference.

              Ddg would have improved so we can’t really compare then and now.

          • Gellis12
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            11 year ago

            Honestly, I switched to ddg as soon as Google rolled out amp, and found that it was better than google at finding relevant results

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    -51 year ago

    I don’t think Meta or Google are great companies but this is just greed by the news companies. They obviously benefit from these incoming links or they would just disable indexing via robots.txt. If they really think they should get more compensation they could have negotiated with Meta and Google directly. But they know that their requests are dumb so they instead lobbied the government for special rules.

    Of course this is the exact same thing that happened in Australia. The news companies need Google and Meta way more than G&M need them. So they just blocked these links and the news companies cried uncle.

    • @ttmrichter
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      121 year ago

      The news companies tried to sign deals with Google and Meta. Google and Meta yawned and ignored them. The Australian government brought in their laws. Google and Meta tried blockading. The Australian government yawned and ignored them. Google and Meta now have signed remuneration agreements in place with over 200 news outlets in Australia. Australia still has its News Media Bargaining Code in place in law.

      I hope Canada cries uncle the way Australia did!

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Yes, the blocking in Australia was part of the negotiation as it is here in Canada. In the end the Australian news companies did have to negotiate, they did not get to demand whatever income they want like many people here seem to suggest and want.

      • schultzter
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        01 year ago

        Google & Meta send their money to the shareholders in NYC that own 85% of Australian media, not to the journalists in Australia. Simlilarly Bill C-18 will be a windfall for a little NJ company.