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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by robertlagrant on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @03:28PM (#32667141)
A third party that indexes the content for searchability and shows too much of it to its users is not bait and switch. Come on.
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by vorpalhex on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:34PM (#32668663)
That is the deal of being indexed. That which you share to the indexer is shared to the world.
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Re:Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website... by thayne on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:46PM (#32670327)
The news sites return different content to search engines than they do to browsers. Which means you get a different site than what is shown in the search preview, specifically a paywall page.

I would be a lot less annoyed with these paywalls if they didn't rank so highly on search results, or at the very least indicated they were paywalled on the search page and were easy to filter out.

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