Re:Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons
by jeremyjh on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:54AM
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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
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How long before Google switches to digitally signed crawling requests?