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OT, but how do archive sites work? I assume they don't have full subscriptions to everything, so how do they get around all the different paywalls?
by test1235 5y ago
OT, but how do archive sites work? I assume they don't have full subscriptions to everything, so how do they get around all the different paywalls?
- mojuba 5y agoIn this case the article is available apparently if you disable JavaScript in your browser. Many media web sites show the full text to the search engines but hide them with trivial HTML overlays once visited by a human. Sometimes your browser's Reader can show you the full text (though it's not the case with the Economist for example)
- KronisLV 5y agoMaybe a different user agent or something? I'm sure that the companies writing these articles do want them to have good SEO and therefore allow crawling them for all sorts of bots, so that they'd show up on search engines.