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Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search (www.adweek.com)
submitted 2 months ago by honesthenery@thelemmy.club to c/fuck_bigtech
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In doing so, Google forces publishers to make an impossible choice: They either allow both functions, enabling Google to scrape their content to train the AI products that are regurgitating their data without compensation; or they shut off both functions and disappear from Google Search, presumably losing their largest source of traffic in the process.

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[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

As if Google would stop scraping your content, just because you opted out.