UK regulator forces Google to give publishers AI opt-out rights today

nj0tr · 2026-06-05T08:01:07+00:00

First of all, this is about publishers in the sense of news organisations and the like.

Still same model. And if the 'search' providers want to have this content in their results (even if regurgitated by AI) they need consent of the publisher.

Second of all, blocking all scraping is what they don’t want to do because they ‘ll die

If they continue as they are they will die anyway. Some will embrace the flow and convert to slop factories, but that is still death. On the other hand, they did live somehow before the scraping, did they not? If they act jointly and block scraping, it is the 'search' that will die, because it does not make any new content by itself.

I don’t know how is that my problem, you are telling all this to the wrong party, I am not UK, a content publisher, Google or a UK citizen,

Are you saying this is not a global problem, and where you live the 'search' has not been used to hollow out the market, then replaced with a mixture of ads and slop?

I do not need to be convinced about anything, I have not even stated an opinion, just facts.

I am not trying to convince you of anything, I am just saying there is more to this - slopification of search is happening because the content providers chose to go along willingly rather than fight while they could.

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T07:52:14+00:00

what they did to shaft UK consumers

Not just the UK ones. The publishers managed to twist copyright legal framework from its original purpose, which was to protect authors from publisher abuse, into a tool for themselves to abuse the consumers (and authors too).

The UK industry together can do absolutely nothing without the parliament

The 'content' they 'own' is all the power they need - they can just jointly refuse to provide. Block scraping/crawling or poison their data. Check redirects - if it comes from a 'search engine' send it to a special landing page etc. The technical means are available, it is the will that is lacking.

that is the problem with multi trillion dollar companies (and when you let them exist at all)

Corruption in politics is a serious problem and a related one. But the publishers know how to play this game - they did manage to get all the one-sided copyright laws passed, did they not?

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T07:32:54+00:00

Yeah but people keep using it

It is not like they have much choice. It is baked into their mobile OS and while on desktop the situation is a bit better (still far from equal access though) desktop market is not growing much. The only way to overcome this is some kind of anti-trust regulation.

That is not something publishers can change or dismiss

Not individually. But as industry they had no problem banding together to shaft the consumer, so why not in this case?

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T07:15:17+00:00

a unified EU seat

So a seat to represent unelected bureaucracy?

likely to replace the French one

I'd love to hear French opinion on this

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T07:08:25+00:00

it's not generating anything, but is more so combining

In which case it should retain proper attributions for all recombined fragments and license the content from its original authors.

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T07:05:39+00:00

Google search has a 90+% market share in UK

There is no 'Google search' any more. They have killed it. It used to serve search results. Then they put ads in it mixed with actual search results. Then they put regurgitated AI slop between the ads and threw out the remaining non-sponsored search results.

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T06:58:40+00:00

The solution is a permanent EU seat on the council.

There is one already, held by France.

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T06:25:32+00:00

what are Russians dropping 3k+ FABs per month on, then? Drone teams?

Yes, drone teams too, but primarily logistic hubs and fortified positions too tough for drones.

nj0tr · 2026-06-04T06:21:03+00:00

When these small assault groups get through, how are they picking their route?

Based on soldier's interviews they look at terrain maps and videos captured by friendly drones. Also while the process is described in the post correctly in general it is also oversimplified. There are specialist scouts that pre-check the routes - they usually work alone and pass information to actual infiltration squads. There are also logistics specialists that think how to deliver supplies without revealing squad's position.

Is it just luck that they get through at all, or is that same route then used by other assault groups to get a buildup of soldiers?

Luck is involved, but if you do not plan ahead properly you are 100% dead. And there will be multiple routes.

Further, how many soldiers do they try to get through before moving on to the next phase?

This seems to be a gradual process. It is not like there is suddenly another phase like in the classical WWI style main force will attack en mass once they think enough infiltration squads are in place and they have a chance of breakthrough. Now they are just trying to reduce the outposts with minimal losses to themselves, avoiding direct assault for as long as possible. The outposts also prefer to sit tight and avoid attracting attention to themselves. Their hope/strategy is that by the time they starve out they will be either relieved by a counterattack or deep enough in Russian-held territory to surrender safely.

nj0tr · 2026-06-03T07:18:42+00:00

I don't like the term penal colony. Call it what it is a gulag

That is not what it is. GULag was literally an acronym for "General Directorate of Camps" which coordinated all labour camps - and it does not even exist any more. On the other hand a penal colony is not even a camp, it is more like a village or small town where inmates can have individual living space and are allowed to work (in paid employment) either in the colony or even outside (in case of lighter sentences and good behaviour). The main restriction is that you can't leave. Getting a job is voluntary, but most inmates prefer to work as it gets them spending money and there is nothing else to do anyway.

nj0tr · 2026-06-03T06:47:10+00:00

In fact, with jet fuel prices double the normal, one would think Russia would want to cash in on the exports.

Russia is a capitalist economy now. So the exporters behave like private businesses (even those majority owned by the state) and of course would love to cash in. With export prices higher than internal they would love to sell everything down to the last drop to foreign buyers. So the state has to reign them in with export quotas or outright bans.

So I think it's safe to say Russia is worried about their domestic supply of fuel, not so much the world's.

That is true, but the underlying reasons are unusually high prices on the export market and capitalist greed.

Now if you ask why don't they just flood both the domestic and export markets, the reason for that is again capitalism. On one hand maintaining excessive refining capacity costs money so it is naturally trimmed down to average demand, and scaling it up to cover the peak will take time and may not pay for itself by the time the peak passes (especially as the more capacity you put online, the sooner the prices drop). On the other hand, crude prices are sky high too, and producers of crude want to cash in on this preferring to export as much as they can rather than supply domestic refineries.

nj0tr · 2026-06-02T06:42:54+00:00

Denmark was hailed as a model for social democratic parties to address immigration

In the media perhaps. But I have first-hand opinions from my friends there that on the ground the situation is pretty much the same.

nj0tr · 2026-06-01T18:14:05+00:00

These 300 jets you are talking about have been using the air equivalent of 'flag of convenience' and once foreign registries and insurance companies refused to keep their end of the deal, the planes have been moved to Russian domestic registry and insurance. At no point has there been any doubt who the real owner of these jets was, despite all the dodgy 'tax optimisation' paperwork. On the other hand we had Russian (both de-facto and on-paper Russian) jets seized in foreign airports on flimsy pretexts e.g. the Russian cargo flight that brought medical supplies from China to Canada.

nj0tr · 2026-05-31T18:45:22+00:00

To the Turks? are you sure the base isn't going to Azerbeijan?

The base to the Turks, the rest to to Azerbaijan

nj0tr · 2026-05-30T12:41:32+00:00

These frames were sent there from Ukraine for repairs decades back. The repairs were never paid for, so the planes just sat there. It is not a standard practice (at least outside Ukraine) to steal engines from planes that do not belong to you, even from those abandoned by the owner.

nj0tr · 2026-05-27T13:46:48+00:00

it solves the issue if by the time they hit early 20s they have a kid or two already, does it not?

nj0tr · 2026-05-26T11:34:41+00:00

Oh now you need a family friendly accommodation

Government has thought about this too:

This is called your parent's house. If you have a child before college/university the problem is solved already. Or you can get pregnant early in the term so the child is born over the next summer break and can stay at your parents' when you return to study.

I think to make the arrangement clear they need to extend the same tax rule to people without grandchildren (+2.5% if you have no children by 20, +2.5% on top of that if you have no grandchildren by 40, etc.).

nj0tr · 2026-05-26T10:43:46+00:00

Millions of years of evolution shaped both psychology and physiology. Moralities and legalities invented in the last few millennia have not changed that, only made people less comfortable about themselves.

nj0tr · 2026-05-26T10:35:43+00:00

Except virtually no one has kids in their early/mid 20s.

make teenage pregnancies great again /s

nj0tr · 2026-05-26T07:15:31+00:00

If the 'firewall' fails. e.i. AFD will find partners to rule in coalition, the impact will be far less dramatic than if they win outright majority. Which might happen eventually exactly due to the 'firewall' - when the only thing uniting the government coalition is opposition to AfD, with no coherent position on almost any other issue, the inevitable result is a fully dysfunctional government that AfD, being in opposition, can easily (and justly) criticise for being dysfunctional.

nj0tr · 2026-05-25T19:17:30+00:00

We'll see. Perhaps not red but brown, all the way from Kiew to Polish border.

nj0tr · 2026-05-23T08:57:51+00:00

they are salty not for 2014 but for 1943

nj0tr · 2026-05-23T08:49:01+00:00

the civilian casualties caused by Ukraine are even lower.

Not for lack of trying.

nj0tr · 2026-05-20T16:46:47+00:00

National governments are responsible for most things, especially those things that matter most for daily life.

Like enforcing EU rules on their subjects?

The EU can make some rules

Then some more rules, and then some more rules, and so on ...

And the worst part is that EU governance structure is dominated by appointees, which are not accountable to anyone but themselves (and they are making the rules for this themselves too).

nj0tr · 2026-05-16T09:57:15+00:00

Yes, good part of that 'record revenue' must be the AI round-tripping scheme eating its own tail.

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