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Canada says Google will pay $74 million annually to Canadian news industry under new online law (abcnews.go.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Siegfried 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] phoneymouse 1 points 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.