• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Google did it and everyone just accepted it. Oh maybe my website will get a few pennies in ad revenue if someone clicks the link that Google got by copying all my content. Meanwhile Google makes billions by taking those pennies in ad revenue from every single webpage on the entire Internet.

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      To be fair, it’s different when your product is useful or something people actually want, having said that, google doesn’t have much of that going for it in these days.