How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social media sites and apps

Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by chipperyman573 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:02AM (#14794498)

I thought that google didn't allow websites to alter their appearance for google's UA.

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by MarkSweep on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:06AM (#14794518)

I think the standard was, you could show the whole page to the google search engine so long as you showed the same page to someone clicking through from the search results. That's why the old trick was to search for the article on Google.

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by icebraining on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:03AM (#14794507)

I think the WSJ is just showing Google the reduced version as well.

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Re:How paywalled sites permit access to visitors from social... by donohoe on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:28AM (#14796334)

Nope. Never been the case.

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