Certainly at this point anybody serious about wanting to give Google special access through their paywall would allow based on the published IP blocks [1] and n

Certainly at this point anybody serious about wanting to give Google special access through their paywall would allow based on the published IP blocks [1] and not an easily spoofed UA header [1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/verifying-googlebot#use-automatic-solutions https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...