Is it so wrong for those who create content to want people to visit their website to consume that content? The alternative being that Facebook and Google summarize everyone's content and keep all the engagement and profit for themselves.
Yes!! You’re getting it! This is what they’re optimizing for. Have been for a decade plus.
What's the actual solution? What would an ethically run Google look like? I'm not even going to ask for Facebook, because I'm not convinced it's possible.
People don't like change, this will be a non-story in a year.