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Our EDM team also investigates suspected scrapers to learn more about what they’re doing and make our systems stronger. We’ve taken a variety of actions against data misuse. These can include sending cease and desist letters, disabling accounts, filing lawsuits against scrapers engaging in egregious behavior and requesting companies that host scraped data to take them down.
How We Combat Scraping | Meta
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Every now and again, Yahoo would send us a flood of traffic, and we couldn’t figure out why. So we started making a list of stories that would get Yahoo traffic, and we realized that the algorithm loves stories about fish.So—true story—on really slow Fridays, the tiny team of Verge people would all Google the words “fish technology,” and we would write stories about fish. And we would collect a flood of Yahoo traffic. We called them “Fish Fridays.”
“It Might Well Be Unsolvable”: Nilay Patel on Facebook’s Reckoning With Reality—And the Metaverse-Size Problems Yet to Come
vanityfair.com
I have to think the population of people for whom $15 is too pricey but $8 is just right is pretty small. Getting people to pay for digital content is hard, but the big challenge is getting someone from $0 to $0.01 — the act of commitment to payment.
Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price
Joshua Benton
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