If I recall correctly, this rule is why googling for an article and then clicking on it from Google frequently works. The rule is something like "a user clicki

If I recall correctly, this rule is why googling for an article and then clicking on it from Google frequently works. The rule is something like "a user clicking from Google can't see something (meaningfully) different than what the Googlebot sees". So you can paywall direct traffic or links from Reddit or internal links, but that first one from Google is supposed to work.