This is the best idea here. What's funny is that the news sites in their typical technical incompetence are actually way far behind in this battle. Spoofing use

This is the best idea here. What's funny is that the news sites in their typical technical incompetence are actually way far behind in this battle. Spoofing user agent does not work anymore on most 'techy' sites who have quality software engineering. Analyzing user agent is preschool tier blocking these days. If the news sites want to get serious they need to use browser fingerprinting to detect human behavior and only accept Googlebot user agents from Google IPs. They are basically complaining about something that they are too technically incompetent to solve themselves.