Comment on Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law

Zrybew@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If Google is just publishing headlines and directing traffic to news sites it seems like too much.

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem could be that people are just reading the headlines, ergo, not accounting views on the news sites.

    I don’t know how the situation looks in Canada, but here news are so undermined at this point that news sites have become gigantic clickbait farms.

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    • dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, the traditional media ads are just cancerous, can’t stand to browse a traditional media site without an ad blocker. It can’t help their reputation to show such crap on their site.

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    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The real problem is that rather than buying ads in traditional media, advertisers are buying ads on Google and Facebook. They’re taking revenue away from traditional media.

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