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This is 3rd article this week I've been blocked from reading. How are people continually reading and upvoting these links? Is everyone a subscriber?

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/FGY1lSv.png

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Here you go :) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

May I ask how you did that?

it shows the article if the refer(r)er is google

This "Come From Google" (CFG) paywall bypass bookmarklet usually does the trick for me:

https://umur.io/paywall-bypass-bookmarklet-come-from-google/

Thanks for the heads up on CFG - sounds useful, though it doesn't seem to work for me.

Dev tools, copied the link. :)

I'm confused how this is still allowed by Google. I thought you were not allowed to show Google one thing while other users another?

You're not allowed to show google's bots a different thing than what a user sees when they click a search link.

Which is not the same as visiting the link via other methods (entering into URL bar directly, for example).

For me it didn't even load the ad, I just saw the "log in" at the bottom and a blank page. "who needs an article when you can have a headline?"

Same for me. It must be the ad-blocker (uBlock)

I'm on FF without adblock extension, so at least for me it wasn't. I'm in Japan however, so I'm probably completely irrelevant to the operators of that webzone. "What are you telling me, Johnny? There's people outside the US who have access to the intertubes? Getoutofhere!"

It's even more messed up with an adblocker. You don't even know what is going on http://imgur.com/K9VvuWs

I'm a bit mystified.

The link goes to an empty article but if you google the exact title, you will be taken to the full article which... has the exact same URL.

I don't know what kind of wizardry this is.

They're looking at the HTTP referer [sic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

Most newspapers don't show paywalls to users coming from a search engine, as part of a compromise with Google to prevent them from being penalized in rankings.

Not wizardry. Checking referer.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer>

Indistinguishible form magic

Isn't it just referer headers?

I'm supposed to read the article before up voting?

probably bots upvoating

How would you know whether the article is worth recommending if you don't read it?

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