• The Dark Lord ☑️@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Right. It’s like if I stand at a street corner telling people to try out a local restaurant. And then the local restaurant says that I should be charged to recommend them. It makes no sense.

    I hate Meta, but this is just a dumb law.

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      1 year ago

      It’s worse.

      The preview Facebook or whoever is providing is the content the site literally explicitly provided for the purpose of linking to their website. It’s like the restaurant gave you a stack of flyers then tried to charge you for handing them out.

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        1 year ago

        Is it actually a provided preview, or a preview they are generating.

        I know part of the legit problem is when a website summarizes something and then people don’t click on the link, which reduces ad revenue.

        But maybe there’s a provided summary (which should be fine) and the other way it gets summarized (which could arguably be deemed bad)

        But making them pay to just link with is batshit insane.