this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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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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[โ€“] kamenlady@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[โ€“] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You gonna get scraped