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Same with vBulletin™ boards. Change showthread.php?1234-title to printhread.php?t=1234 and suddenly you can read all the content (except for attachment

• thejosh 13y ago
  It's really scummy that I land on these pages to be presented with a login box and need to do this trick to see the contents.
• JonnieCache 13y ago
  Nice! Thanks for the tipoff. Another good one is simply to load the google cache. Often these sites want to turn up in search results, so they allow the googlebot to see the content, and then show the user a paywall. Obviously this means the full content ends up in the cache. This works for the Financial Times, and probably many other such places.
  • AznHisoka 13y ago
    I wonder why Google doesn't do anything about it. It seems these big companies/brands get to get away with anything.
    • kalleboo 13y ago
      Google claim to detect when people do that, but I guess it's not foolproof.
      • ohashi 13y ago
        It's why experts-exchange has all the content all the way at the bottom now if you scroll half a mile down. They used to show users and google different results until Google cracked down.
• fourstar 13y ago
  Tried it on: http://forums.offtopic.com/printhread.php?t=5190971 http://forums.offtopic.com/printhread.php?t=5190971 And got redirected to the homepage instead.
  • ohwp 13y ago
    Looks like they totally closed the forum. There aren't any posts indexed by Google.