Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content.

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let me guess: There are ways for Google’s scraping, search engine, and AI model training to bypass this.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My first thought.

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And hopefully ad blockers too.

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That or if Google hosts the service, they will just charge you a nominal fee. So the user will put the money in the basket or else they scrape the content again.

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• Naich@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Makes it easier to see which sites to avoid, I guess.

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  • njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.

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• nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Drastically reducing website traffic speedrun any%

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• archonet@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  a paywall I am sure will be exactly as effective as google’s attempts at ad-blocking on YouTube, for exactly the same reason: a dedicated group of pissed off nerds who spend their time getting around it as a service to everyons. Bypass Paywalls Clean is already a thing.

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• Schwim@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m offering anyone using the service a chance to fuck right off.

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• forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, once somebody figures out how to easily bypass this, that’ll work in my favor in the end I hope.

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder how much it’ll integrate with Chrome to prevent tampering. I know it’ll probably not be perfect, but….

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• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hopefully ublock can handle those.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t need whatever’s behind that nonsense.

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    • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hope ublock origin can handle it and by handle I mean make sure my machine never connects to a google server

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