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Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts by ebg13 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:57PM (#23708308)
I'm sure that it predates Fox News Channel by a lot, after all, news business are business first and news second, but it would be misguided to ignore the fact that FNC has completely dominated viewership numbers in the US almost since its inception by doing exactly what you're complaining about. Opinion is a format that engages large numbers of people and therefore makes money extremely well.
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Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts by AnthonyMouse on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:55AM (#23711287)
> FNC has completely dominated viewership numbers in the US almost since its inception by doing exactly what you're complaining about.

To be fair, they mostly dominate viewership numbers by being the only right-leaning news network available, so they get half the viewing public to themselves while their competitors fight over the other half.

Sort of an indictment of the efficient market hypothesis that nobody has figured that out and gone into competition with them.

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