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by guy98238710 3085 days ago
This change was tested for months in several smaller countries including mine. I am not on facebook, but I know that media here hate the change. They lost tens of percents of traffic overnight.
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This plus the Adblock wars makes me wonder if there's anything that would make both consumers and media happy at the same time, or whether the relationship is pseudo adversarial by nature now.
I was super happy mid-90s when we spent our own money to self-publish, as both a consumer and publisher.

Publishing a static set of lightly styled HTML pages to massive audiences is shockingly cheap.

> They lost tens of percents of traffic overnight

This is not necessarily a bad thing for users

It is if those users wanted to see that content.