Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re...
by downandout on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:01PM
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100% agree. I've actually reported WSJ to Google several times for cloaking (that's what Google calls this bait-and-switch). The penalty for this is supposed to be deindexing of the entire site from all Google results, but apparently WSJ gets a pass on that. At least they're being punished to some degree.
For the record, if anybody needs a draggable WSJ paywall bypass bookmarklet, I put one up here:
For the record, if anybody needs a draggable WSJ paywall bypass bookmarklet, I put one up here:
http://salzeko.com/wsj/