Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i...
by Too on Monday December 21, 2020 @05:24AM
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This trick is almost older than the internet, so if someone cared they would block it already. Sending google.com as Referrer is another variant of it. Before stackoverflow days this was very useful for getting past the paywall on expertsexchange for example.
I was under the impression that serving other content to google would greatly punish your pagerank and even pull you off the search results completely.
I was under the impression that serving other content to google would greatly punish your pagerank and even pull you off the search results completely.