🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agoTop French newspapers sue X for unpaid use of their contentwww.rfi.frexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1391
arrow-up1391external-linkTop French newspapers sue X for unpaid use of their contentwww.rfi.fr🃏Joker@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squareconciselyverbose@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·edit-28 months agoExcept the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show. They have “please show this preview instead of a boring plain link” code.
minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 months agoThis. They even provide the cover image to use. If they don’t want embedding they could just block the request. But they don’t want to. They want to sell the cake and eat it too.
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months ago It should only show the title and the link imo. That’s infringement in Europe, which makes it effectively a link tax.
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Except the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show.
They have “please show this preview instead of a boring plain link” code.
This. They even provide the cover image to use. If they don’t want embedding they could just block the request.
But they don’t want to. They want to sell the cake and eat it too.
That’s infringement in Europe, which makes it effectively a link tax.