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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by meghan_rain on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:03PM (#35622326)
Makes me wonder if creating a plugin that makes your browser pretend to be the Google indexing bot would give you secret access to all paysites?
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by jffry on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:15PM (#35622445)
Certainly at this point anybody serious about wanting to give Google special access through their paywall would allow based on the published IP blocks [1] and not an easily spoofed UA header

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by brookst on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:40PM (#35622641)
I remember the good old days when Google penalized sites for showing content to their crawler that wasn't available to normal users.
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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by jonas-w on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:22PM (#35623062)
https://12ft.io works on some sites through pretending to be the google bot.

You can also access any site in the google cache with prepending "https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:", that will you show you the website like the google bot saw it.

For example github.com would become "https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%..."

It is still worth to try, but many sites already prevent this.

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Re:Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically by stefandesu on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:00AM (#35624736)
It just recently stopped working for Zeit.de articles. Seems like their paywall is now higher than 12 feet...
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