Forsaken
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Giving people control over their privacy and data is one thing, but the GDPR does things in such a way that far oversteps what should have been allowed in a single reform, and gives too much control
This is a solution to a problem that some news services had with snippets being posted, whereas their other solution was to just sue the people posting snippets and disallowing their usage entirely.
The issue is what do you define as a snippet? There is no standard for a 'snippet' of news, and as such the bulk of a story has often been posted or used by aggregate services (including Google, Facebook and Microsoft).It doesn't really matter if it was better or not and what I may (or may not) think about rich media.
Point is I do think that claims a fee on displaying snippets would mean the end of the (internet) world as we know it is uncalled for-
The world wide web did exist before social media, before rich media embeds and it will most likely continue to exist even without rich media embeds.
I don't expect scenario 2 to happen often (if at all); if the software does not do an embed, the user will just go with a plain link.
Or do you see users manually trying to craft Twitter-looking embeds on XF 1.5?
I don't, they just paste URLs to tweets.
This is a solution to a problem that some news services had with snippets being posted, whereas their other solution was to just sue the people posting snippets and disallowing their usage entirely.