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This is fixed in Google Chrome by opening up the console in Web Enspector, and enabling Network conditions from the three dot menu and then in that new tab select Googlebot as the custom user agent. Note that you will still have to click on a google search link.

I wouldn't exactly call that a "fix", but still, thanks for the tip.

Once you've set it up once and figured it out it's easy to just to toggle it the next time. It's definitely more work. I prefer this to installing a random extension that can read all my data on all websites.

Interesting that this practice doesn't seem to affect the WSJ's rank in Google search results. Cloaking content based on user-agent is definitely a violation of Google's webmaster guidelines (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en)

I remember they had some rule for google news that allowed paywalls if a user can read at least N articles per month from google search results. This is probably the same case.

https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en...

works for me in an incognito window