• superkret@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    By the way:
    They do that for 3 reasons: Keeping you on the site longer, which increases its rating with Google.
    Adding more space for ads.
    And preventing others from simply scraping and reposting the entire content on their site, since recipes by themselves can’t be copyrighted, but written stories can.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      True.

      Although in Tolkien’s case, I think no one bothered to tell him that writers like Dickens were paid per-word for what they wrote and he just figured he’d do what everyone he grew up reading did.