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by icy_deadposts 947 days ago
Google added our web pages to their index without paying us. and probably trained AI on our content without paying us. Just returning the favor.
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Not really, you have an option to exclude your content from being indexed by Google (robots.txt).

I don't care as much about Google losing money because of ad-blockers, they have plenty of money going around. The real people losing here are the ones who are creating the content. As it is they need to amass a large number of views to earn few dollars from a video. Depending on the type of content, a lot of time, money and effort goes into creating each of those videos.