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The sites offer the articles for free to search engines and the like, otherwise this wouldn't work. It's not that different from using archive.is etc Imo. Hack

• muttled 5y ago
  You bring up an interesting point that they offer it for free to search engines. Didn't it used to be against the rules of most search engines to "cloak" your content by serving one thing to the spiders and another to the general public? Edit: Found it. It's still against their rules. <https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/cloaking#:~:text=Cloaking%20refers%20to%20the%20practice,different%20results%20than%20they%20expected. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...>
  • stall 5y ago
    Well, google published https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structured-data/paywalled-content https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure... which describes how it should be done