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Surely that's just any halfway-competent pay/sign-up wall, rather than specifically anti-reader mode?

• satellite2 5y ago
  Not necessarily as they still want to be referenced properly. The workaround was to whitelist Google's spider ips and remove the paywall for those but with the progress of other search engine / social nets it's more complicated to paywall without hurting SEO.
  • matheusmoreira 5y ago
    > The workaround was to whitelist Google's spider ips and remove the paywall for those Isn't that against Google's own policies? I think they call it cloaking.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  For sites dependent on link-aggregator sites (such as HN, Tildes, Mastodon, Diaspora, etc.)[1] for spreading and sharing content, hard paywalls tend to very strongly discourage further readership and sharing. I'm aware that HN has multiple levels of penalties applied to sites / domains, for various reasons. Users may also flag inaccessible content. (I certainly do.) ________________________________ Notes: 1. If you've determined that "etc." is doing much heavy lifting here, congratulations. The resources listed are highly encouraged.
• egypturnash 5y ago
  If you wanna split hairs, sure. "Breaking reader mode" is a component of an access wall. For a while a lot of sites didn't have that, so reader mode would work to skip all that.