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X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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What even is the point of this change?! What could it possibly improve?
Probably so people click the link more often to find out what it’s about - which Musk then can take to publishers and say “look how much traffic we generated for you”
Yeah, I see it. Horrible for the users though...
Elon Musk's mood for a few minutes.
Might just be a way to bypass some countries requiring that social media sites pay news companies when they scrape their articles and show a preview on the page? Something like that's been passed in Canada recently and companies like Facebook and Google basically just stopped showing summaries of news on their sites to Canadians as a result.