Let me guess: There are ways for Google’s scraping, search engine, and AI model training to bypass this.
My first thought.
And hopefully ad blockers too.
That or if Google hosts the service, they will just charge you a nominal fee. So the user will put the money in the basket or else they scrape the content again.
Makes it easier to see which sites to avoid, I guess.
Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.
How do you support the media you consume?
That’s their secret, captain. They don’t.
Or, TBF, like in free-to-play games, they are subsidized by paying/non-ad-blocking users.
Drastically reducing website traffic speedrun any%
So Google shuts you out of their rankings and results to sell this. Fuck you.
a paywall I am sure will be exactly as effective as google’s attempts at ad-blocking on YouTube, for exactly the same reason: a dedicated group of pissed off nerds who spend their time getting around it as a service to everyone. Bypass Paywalls Clean is already a thing.
I’m offering anyone using the service a chance to fuck right off.
Meanwhile, publishers: “why is everyone using AI instead of viewing our sites themselves?”
So, once somebody figures out how to easily bypass this, that’ll work in my favor in the end I hope.
I wonder how much it’ll integrate with Chrome to prevent tampering. I know it’ll probably not be perfect, but….
Hopefully ublock can handle those.
I don’t need whatever’s behind that nonsense.
I hope ublock origin can handle it and by handle I mean make sure my machine never connects to a google server
