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Sounds like a lot of Swiss newspapers are going to notice a sudden and drastic dive in their web traffic.
Absolutely correct, Canadian Newspaper pulled the same thing, but they also blocked social media sites from sharing or posting links to their sites, blaming the links were "summarized". Their argument was the links were being summarized and users were not visiting the Newspapers website.
So social media sites blocked all links of Canadian news, then Newspapers cried foul after a drop in traffic.
Funny enough when you see a summarized link, such as ones that show a picture and maybe a sentence, the content shown in that summary is directly controlled by the site being linked.
They would rather stop showing those extracts in Switzerland than pay the fee.
I think there already was case like this with either Google or Meta somewhere around Europe few years back. Or it might've been actual search results instead of extracts. The decision was overriden shortly as their web traffic dropped drastically. They'll 100% do this and don't think twice.
That happened in Canada as well a while back.
Funny story though, web extracts that become visible when you share a link for example on a social media platform or even through a text message are actually "controlled" by the source website.
This means the short summary that can range from a sentence to a few sentences is actually completely in the hands of the source website and is not actually "scrapped" when the link is shared.
They'll blame this for more ads and enough people will say, "Oh, that makes sense."
Clear copyright over reach. News titles or tiny excerpts should not copyrightable - that's just idiotic. If thag stops readers from reading your article then it was never good enough to begin with.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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