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From a developer point of view, wouldn't it be more useful, ethical and financially effective to reach out to these websites and teach them how to implement paywalls right?

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They want their articles to be indexed, but they don't want the end-user to see the content. You cannot have both effectively.

but they don't want to, because they want to keep their sweet page rank

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