> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear. I'm surprised sites this big ar

> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear. I'm surprised sites this big are even relying on the user agent for determining Googlebot, given how easy (and common) it is to forge, when they could be checking the Googlebot IP ranges instead.