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WSJ closed this[1]; web link here finds the article in google which still hits the paywall. [1]http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-google

• levemi 11y ago
  This is fixed in Google Chrome by opening up the console in Web Enspector, and enabling Network conditions from the three dot menu and then in that new tab select Googlebot as the custom user agent. Note that you will still have to click on a google search link.
  • retromario 11y ago
    I wouldn't exactly call that a "fix", but still, thanks for the tip.
    • levemi 11y ago
      Once you've set it up once and figured it out it's easy to just to toggle it the next time. It's definitely more work. I prefer this to installing a random extension that can read all my data on all websites.
• eric_h 11y ago
  works for me in an incognito window
• jobu 11y ago
  Interesting that this practice doesn't seem to affect the WSJ's rank in Google search results. Cloaking content based on user-agent is definitely a violation of Google's webmaster guidelines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en)
  • codedokode 11y ago
    I remember they had some rule for google news that allowed paywalls if a user can read at least N articles per month from google search results. This is probably the same case. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en&rd=1 https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en...