Google to stop showing news snippets for French users
I really wish traditional news media, aka those people that are supposed to dissaminate the news, would get a grip and stop breaking the internet and their core business altogether one of these days. If you lose revenue because google shows a few sentences of the introduction your content is not worth it to readers. But no, instead of better content and easier ways to consume it, we get more clickbait and whining about fake news.<p>At least on the level of local newspapers in Germany it&#x27;s a complete disaster for me personally. It&#x27;s not even that I wouldn&#x27;t want to pay people that go out and report on local happenings, it&#x27;s just that I don&#x27;t want to add another 10-20EUR subscription for the 1&#x2F;2 articles I&#x27;d want to skim that&#x27;s actually relevant content and not some made up outrage or simply agency content.