Sites are usually quite careful about this because they don't want to get banned. Google's rules, for example, are quite complex, allowing the search engine to

Sites are usually quite careful about this because they don't want to get banned. Google's rules, for example, are quite complex, allowing the search engine to get the full content of every article but with users seeing a small number of free articles and then a paywall after that: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/flexible-sampling https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearanc... It sounds like your proposed change would have the search engine use its influence to push sites away from paywall models?