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Which will lead to the same hack as paywalled news sites, the ads won't load when referred from google meanwhile the rest will suffer.
by eterm 10y ago
Which will lead to the same hack as paywalled news sites, the ads won't load when referred from google meanwhile the rest will suffer.
- marblar 10y agoSo users reaching a site through google have a better experience than users accessing it through some other method? This seems like a pretty good thing from Google's perspective...
- eterm 10y agoAbsolutely, and further extends their embrace over the web. I suspect google are probably wary about moves that push themselves much further right now, the last thing they want to do is look like a monopoly.
- DeadBabyOrgasm 10y agoSounds like a good reason to build a plugin to always sets the http referrer header to google.com on certain news sites.
- colejohnson66 10y agoIs there any good reason for having the "Referer:" tag at all?