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Comment by theandrewbailey | Hacker News Reader

Google is fixing it, but it's punishing them in search, not Chrome.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/google-to-punish-sit...

Google also has tech to show these banners but only if you've visited the same site a few times already, and then not every time. (This link talks about web app installs first, then native app installs later)

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...

"The user has visited your site twice over two separate days during the course of two weeks."

Which will lead to the same hack as paywalled news sites, the ads won't load when referred from google meanwhile the rest will suffer.

So users reaching a site through google have a better experience than users accessing it through some other method? This seems like a pretty good thing from Google's perspective...

Absolutely, and further extends their embrace over the web.

I suspect google are probably wary about moves that push themselves much further right now, the last thing they want to do is look like a monopoly.

Sounds like a good reason to build a plugin to always sets the http referrer header to google.com on certain news sites.

Is there any good reason for having the "Referer:" tag at all?

Google itself displays an anoying translate this page popup that obscures content, especially when you are browsing in incognito mode.

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