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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by nothis on Sunday December 02, 2018 @09:37AM (#18582461)
"We're sending data to your computer but you mustn't look! Promise!"

I'm not sure how the addon worked, if there's some trickery going on, but I'm long waiting for a lawsuit against ad blockers that could get heated.

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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by jeremyjh on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:54AM (#18582801)
This has nothing to do with ad blockers, or indeed advertising at all. The way it works is they set the user-agent to one used by search engines. The website thinks you are Google, so they give you the content for free because they want Google to index their proprietary content.
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Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons by mathnmusic on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:15AM (#18582893)
How long before Google switches to digitally signed crawling requests?
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