• dan1101@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

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

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        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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          11 months ago

          Yes, ads on traditional media websites 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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          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.