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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by karatestomp on Friday February 28, 2020 @12:50PM (#22444659)
What do paywalled sites do, then? They don't seem to have a problem ranking just fine.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by Karunamon on Friday February 28, 2020 @01:13PM (#22444918)
They show the abstract or the same bit of the headline and maybe a paragraph you see when hitting the page. Googlebot doesn't get the full text.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by karatestomp on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:16PM (#22445445)
I've definitely seen article text on Google that was not presented to me when I clicked the link, and not because the article was updated or something, but because I was blocked from seeing the article.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by Karunamon on Friday February 28, 2020 @02:21PM (#22445498)
It could be in a hidden element or something.. I find that pages that do this fall in the face of things like safari reader mode.
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Re:Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history ... by sli on Friday February 28, 2020 @03:39PM (#22446136)
Many "paywalled" sites lose their paywall if you disable JS.
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