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Pretty sure most paywalled sites explicitly allow the googlebot to enter. If you spoof your UserAgent to be that of the googlebot they check your IP address to
by dreamcompiler 5y ago
Pretty sure most paywalled sites explicitly allow the googlebot to enter. If you spoof your UserAgent to be that of the googlebot they check your IP address to make sure you really are Google.
The new fly in the crawler ointment is Cloudflare: If you're not the googlebot and you hit a Cloudflare customer you need to be running javascript so they can verify you're not a bot. It's a continual arms race.