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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.
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?