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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by eitland on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:58PM (#27668019)
> Ironically, a good workaround is setting your user agent to the Googlebot and suddenly all those modal/nag screens disappear.

Hmmmm. Now that I think of it I'm fairly sure that serving different content to Googlebot compared to what you served ordinary users used to be a good way to call down the wrath of the SEO master upon your (or your clients) website.

Then again, that was before. Back when Google was a nice company and acted in the best interest of its users.

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by js4ever on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:06PM (#27668121)
In fact it's still forbidden by Google ... Except if you are very large like Pinterest
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by ipaddr on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:12PM (#27668208)
It might not be forbidden if it works. Google is famous for undocumented workarounds.
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by cjohansson on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:41PM (#27668562)
Only the most expensive SEO-experts know the occult methods of success on Google's search results
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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by tgtweak on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @04:47PM (#27681511)
Filed under the "okay for me not for thee" google policy.
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