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Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe by tannhaeuser on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:06AM (#18508392)
That isn't the same at all. A publisher cannot use robots.txt, and much less paywalls, to indicate a part of text that can be shared in syndication.
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Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe by Andrex on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:12AM (#18510396)
A paywall can. The page displays the snippet the publication is allowing to be shared, while the paywall hides the rest. I believe this is what a few of the bigger US newspapers are doing right now.
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Re:Google may shut down its news service in Europe by tannhaeuser on Thursday November 22, 2018 @10:58AM (#18510694)
Ok, but that would require regular readers to have credentials for the paywall. I understood the discussion to be about scraping publicly accessible sites.
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