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Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by kozhevnikov on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:22AM (#21099539)
It should be a simple robots.txt setting (i.e. indexed but without snippets) available to any publisher and content creator in any country.
Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by zmix on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:43AM (#21099622)
It is already. And in addition to that, since 'robots.txt' is being considered to broad and too 'out of time', Google offers meta tags, that their bot evaluates. They did this long time before the EU direction.
Re:Google to stop showing news snippets for French users by dahauns on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:41AM (#21099611)
But there already is? That's exactly what the

  nosnippet
meta-tag is for.