Users will have less incentive to click on links without a little preview. Publishers will scratch their head about numbers getting worse. Smart publishers will enable previews. Soon, everyone will enable previews.
Well done!
Well done!
Only on the big websites though, why would a news org bother with small or tiny news aggregators?
The small websites will have to shut down while google will get even stronger. (This happened in germany already when they introduced a very similar law)
That's why every single person who knows what they are talking about has warned about this law from the beginning, but they were all ignored. Now this deals incredible damage to the future of EU internet companies and helps established big US corps. Everyone knew that, its just business as usual with the corrupt to the core and incompetent EU.
A much better law would have standardized a set of headers or meta tags, similar to what Google uses, to allow publishers to specify allowed usage and created penalties for aggregators that don't respect those headers.
In what way do you envision this helping smaller sites?
The reality of the situation is this: there is a lot of money in advertising. Google is sucking all of this ... and recently even more than ever. Google should go back to being the gatekeeper that gives a lifeline to content sites. Honestly , i think it's stupid for google to be trying to make itself a content site, it's a self-destructive strategy. It's sad that it has to be done with legal action.