Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees

I will take out the popcorn and enjoy how this will go down. I think that we will hear a lot of angry screaming in German in a month when the traffic is decimated.

And I wonder why google has just not sent the publishers a letter "Hey, - there is the meta noindex, nofollow and we also honor robots.txt, just put them on the frakking sites."