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The pay that can be bypassed with a FF add on is not a “wall”. They want the pay but don’t want to invest to build a solid wall, I’d say good luck.
by zephrx1111 4y ago
The pay that can be bypassed with a FF add on is not a “wall”.
They want the pay but don’t want to invest to build a solid wall, I’d say good luck.
- wkat4242 4y agoThey want to have their cake and eat it. Lure people in with content indexed by Google and then ask for money when they want to view it. Bait and switch.
- RobotToaster 4y agoIt used to be that displaying content to the google bot that is different to what you show actual users could get you delisted from google, did something change?
- ezfe 4y agoThey're referring to free access when google is the referral source, but paid otherwise. This has never been disallowed. Furthermore, Google wants everything to be accurately indexed so giving Google access so they can index it wouldn't be frowned upon. This is usually done by putting the title and first paragraph online but hiding the rest of the article.
- beeboop 4y agoThe trick to find an article for free by searching for it and having Google be the referral seems to not work almost all the time these days.